Seventy Percent of Baghdad’s Youth Are Not in School and Are Vulnerable, Officials Say
This was aired tonight on the ABC World News.
For all who are still young and have little ones nearby take a long hard look at them, than start thinking how you’re going to explain the ‘Why are we fighting these people?”, when they are older and you’re in that perverbial rocking chair. Because they are going to ask and you had better have a Damn Good Reason, because I’ll be long gone, or to damn old, and I don’t have one now nor will I than.
There isn’t one!
One things for sure they probably won’t ask “Why do they hate us so?” as the greater majority did here not long ago, they’ll probably know at least a little bit of the past!
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 24, 2007 — A video that Iraqis are trading via e-mail and cell phones shows young boys reenacting the hanging of Saddam Hussein, child’s play in the Iraq.
In this country, where nearly 50 percent of the population is under 18, a new generation is being raised on violence.
“A lot of my friends have been killed by explosions,” said Zeen who has endured eight operations on his legs after a being hit by a terrorist bomb.
WE ARE DOING THIS, WE HAVE GIVEN THEM THIS LIFE, WE HAVE SHOWN THEM WHAT DEATH DESTRUCTION AND HATRED LOOKS LIKE!
The Education Ministry states elementary school attendance rates dropped from 75 percent in 2005 to 30 percent last year.
So much for these new schools that really aren’t anyway. And as each day goes by We create more of the Hatred to come!
Video: Children of War
“These aren’t kids who are terrorists or extremists,” he said. “These are kids who have nothing else to do. Because they can’t get to school, there’s no clubs for them to join, they’re being brought into this community of jihad.”
Powers now heads War Kids Relief , which offers youth programs in Iraq.
They won’t be joining into the destructive forces because of a lack of things to do, it’ll be because of the death and destruction we have wrought!
And keep in mind the trauma of the deaths and destruction they are witnessing bringing on the PTSD nightmares of their daily lives, and that many will turn those nightmares into a destructive force within!
Put the above together with this Life During Wartime: Young Iraqis Speak Out
Video: Being a Twentysomething in Iraq
Which apparently aired this morning will I was at work
You can also visit this post I placed a short while ago on a few of these sites:
The Next Jihadists: Iraq’s Lost Children
Or this one The Suffering Children of Iraq? Who cares? posted two days ago.
Or read this by Jan Berry, Vietnam Vet, Children of War
For Americans to break our addiction to war, it will take families working together to live year-round the peace and joy to the world that we sing in Christmas and New Year’s greetings.
One of the tragedies of the war in Iraq is that our soldiers, many of whom are sons and daughters of Vietnam veterans, marched off to a war that bore all the warning signs of the disaster in Vietnam. Like their parents, they eagerly went off to fight in a foreign land they knew nothing about, for a cause that collapsed in the light of the actual facts. What does it take to break such a cycle of excitement and disaster?
And again, take a good long hard look at the little ones in your life, or those you might see while out and about, and keep the thought in mind, “What have we done and what will they be living through because of our actions?”!!!
They won’t be fighting them “Over There”!
“I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of
gratitude” – The pResident {Yep up to 655,000 are really Grateful, many in
their Mass Graves, as are their Survivors}
“I think once they get in harm’s way, Congress’s tradition is to
support those troops,” Mr. Hadley said. {Harms Way, shows what the
administration thinks of the Troops, it’s called a Strong Defense!}
The Failed Policies will Haunt Us and the World for Decades!
