IRAQ WAR - LOOKING GLASS NEWS | |
HOW THE AMERICANS USE IRAQI CHILDREN AS HUMAN SHIELDS |
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from Freedom Liberation Movement
Entered into the database on Sunday, July 17th, 2005 @ 13:53:18 MST |
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The recent tragic death of Iraq children in an attack targeting American occupation
forces highlights an insidious American tactic in Iraq. The American war criminals
in Iraq lure Iraqi children around them on purpose to act as a human shield to
deter attacks (see first photo above). They do this on purpose by offering children
treats and they have been doing this for as long as they have been in Iraq. They
know that if they get attacked, innocent children will be killed. Children are
also naturally curious and tend to gather around military vehicles. The American
soldiers should be condemned for drawing children around them to act as human
shields and they should actively discourage children from gathering around their
vehicles. Iraqi families should also do all they can to keep their children away
from Americans. In fact, all Iraqis should steer well clear of American soldiers in order to
avoid being caught up in resistance attacks. This is also further proof that
the foreign occupation is responsible for these deaths, as they would not occur
if they were not there in the first place. You can find many pictures of American
war criminals luring children around them by searching the Internet. For example,
you can search for “American soldiers and Iraqi children” on the
“Images” function on either Yahoo or Google. The fact is, it may be difficult for a suicide bomber, all set and prepared
for a mission where he is going to die, to pick and choose which Americans to
hit. We don’t know how many suicide bombes have aborted missions when
they have seen too many innocent Iraqi bystanders. Perhaps targets are selected
as carefully as possible to avoid “collateral damage”. Perhaps this
particular bomber didn’t see the children, or it was too late to withdraw.
A target may be carefully selected then at the last moment innocent people stumble
into the area. In any case, a suicide attacker, being very conspicuous, cannot
risk wandering around for too long looking for the best possible target for
fear of discovery. Proof that suicide bombers are not targeting innocent people was provided by
Time magazine’s recent interview of a suicide bomber in training. The
bomber said, “I pray no innocent people are killed in my mission…”
He said that he would prefer his operation to be a car bombing targeting US
soldiers or Iraq security forces.2 However, if only the Americans were so careful when they launch wars and bombing
campaigns around the world. America excuses its killing by saying that they
were not targeting civilians, although they know very well that by bombing a
particular target innocent people will be killed. That’s why they invented
the term “collateral damage” in Vietnam to whitewash its killing
of millions of people around the world while dropping millions of tons of bombs. Who can forget the last split seconds of video footage from a NATO missile
as it slammed into a passenger train in April 1999 during their terror bombing
campaign of Yugoslavia? 55 innocent civilians were killed in this terrible act
(see second photo above). That this one attack equalled the London bombings
puts those bombings in proper conyext and is a good example of the terrorism
and suffering the West is responsible for. While some defend NATO by saying it did not specifically target the passenger
train, the same can be said for the suicide bomber who unfortunately killed
the Iraqi children. It was a regrettable incident in a war America started by
unjustifiably and illegally invading Iraq. Of course, during NATO’s bombing
against Yugoslavia, the Western media happily passed on NATO propaganda that
spoke of “blunders” and “mistakes”.3 Professor Edward
S. Herman had the following to say about this act of NATO terrorism: When Nato bombed a passenger train on April 12, killing 55 civilians, reporters
were shown a videotape by Nato that “proved” the train was going
to fast for the trajectory of the missiles to be altered. Recently it was disclosed
that Nato had played the videotape at three times its normal speed--but the
reporters who had been taken in by this trick earlier did not find this acknowledgement
of Nato disinformation newsworthy, and of course did not cause them to reflect
on the possible existence of a Nato “lie machine”.4 Professor Howard Zinn had the following to say about NATO bombing of Yugoslavia,
and the same can be said about American bombing in Iraq: Isn’t it time we stopped using the word “'accidental”'
to describe the NATO bombing of Yugoslavian hospitals, residential neighborhoods,
buses, trains, trucks, and refugees on roads that has killed or maimed at least
1,000 civilians, including children?5 During the American invasion of Iraq, US air commanders were given a blanket
approval to hit targets as long as the estimated civilian death toll was less
than 30. If more than 30 victims was expected, then approval for the air strike
had to be sought from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He approved all such
requests of which there were more than 50. Any innocent victims were then simply
dismissed as “collateral damage”, “unavoidable”, “regrettable”
etc. After all, the great many innocent civilians America kills have never deterred
them from their campaign of worldwide imperialism. In fact, Americans who support
their government’s wars hardly even care about the innocent people they
kill. Just remember the evil comments of one of their biggest TV personalities,
Bill O’Reilly of FoxNews. In relation to Iraq he said: “And I don’t
have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all. I have no respect
for them. I think that they’re a prehistoric group…What we can do
is bomb the living daylights out of them…” And in relation to Afghanistan: “the U.S. should bomb the Afghan infrastructure
to rubble - the airport, the power plants, their water facilities, and the roads…This
is a very primitive country. And taking out their ability to exist day to day
will not be hard”. We cannot let individual tragedies make us loose sight of what is a justified
war of resistance against the American occupation forces and their Iraqi collaborators
and puppets. Endnotes: 1 Associated Press, “Car
bombs and explosions kill 30 in Iraq”, 15 July 2005 2 Time magazine, “Inside the mind of an Iraqi suicide bomber”, 4
July 2005 issue, pp.20-5 3 See a list of NATO
bombing “blunders” and “mistakes” in Yugoslavia here 4 Edward S. Herman, “Real
journalism versus propaganda”, 3 February 2000 5 Howard Zinn, “The
deadly semantics of NATO bombings”, 28 May 1999 |