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Mosul

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn’t make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask what they could do. The people were very warming and welcomed us into their homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask soldiers to shake hands.

Eventually, some insurgents must have realized we were back and started shooting at us. The American soldiers and Iraqi police started engaging the enemy and there was a running gun battle. I saw at least one IP who was shot, but he looked okay and actually smiled at me despite the big bullet hole in his leg. I smiled back.

One thing seems certain; the people in that neighborhood share our feelings about the terrorists. We are going to go back there, and if any terrorists come out, the soldiers hope to find them. Everybody is still very angry that the insurgents attacked us when the kids were around. Their day will come.

Michael Yon
He is freelance writer Michael Yon, embedded with a Stryker brigade in Mosul. He saw the whole thing happen. The homicide bomber drove THROUGH A GROUP OF PLAYING CHILDREN to get to the passing convoy of Stryker’s. This little girl, who died later at a US Army hospital, was one of the little victims. The Soldier holding her is father of three, 35 yr old West Point grad Maj. Mark Bieger.
 
A picture is worth a thousand words

Oliver North

May 6, 2005

EN ROUTE TO IRAQ – My bosses at FOX News have sent me on assignment to the “sandbox,” as our troops have taken to calling Iraq. There, I will spend time with some of the most impressive young men and women this country has ever produced. These soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Guardsmen never cease to amaze me. Their dedication, enthusiasm and resilience, even in the unforgiving heat and atmosphere of an Iraqi summer, are second to none.

On the day before my departure, The Washington Times carried a front-page photo of an unidentified American soldier cradling a young Iraqi child in his arms. The child was severely wounded by terrorists in Mosul, who used a car bomb to plow through a group of neighborhood children to attack an American patrol. The blast killed two children and injured 15 other Iraqis. Some might say the photo is an example of the horrors of war. It would more accurately be described as portraying the horrors of terrorism.

There is something else striking about this photo. The soldier portrayed, though donned with the accoutrements of battle, is cradling the child in his arms with love and care, affection and tenderness. He has wrapped the young Iraqi child in a blanket to keep her warm; to give her comfort; to protect her dignity. The soldier is holding the child close to him, with his head nestled in close to her small body. It looks as though the soldier is either weeping or praying over her. In fact, it’s likely he’s doing both. You get the sense from the emotion displayed in the photo that, when not just a soldier, this man is a father, the kind of dad that probably takes the whole Little League team out for ice cream after a game.

The love and respect this stranger in an American uniform shows for the wounded Iraqi child is evident. It is yet another example of the many profound acts of kindness, charity and bravery that have been displayed throughout the war by young Americans in uniform. We’ve heard the stories or seen the photos of a Marine sharing his last drop of water with a thirsty Iraqi child. The Internet – unlike many of our major newspapers – is abuzz with pictures of American warriors sharing laughs with Iraqi youth and weeping over the shattered victims of terrorists. I’ve had the great fortune to witness many of these acts of kindness firsthand.

Unfortunately, if you are a college student or a law school student in America today, you are unlikely to know just how remarkable your peers who serve in the military are. Worse yet, your college administrators deny you the opportunity to decide for yourself whether or not you’d like to join their ranks. The Ivory Tower academic elitists in many of America’s most “prestigious” colleges and universities today are waging war against the military and working to keep recruiters off of their campuses.

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case in which “elite” universities are suing the Pentagon to keep military recruiters off their campuses so they don’t “corrupt” the academic environment. Their beef is a federal statute known as the Solomon Amendment, originally passed in 1994, which provides that federal funding may be withheld from institutions of higher education that refuse military recruiters the same opportunities afforded to recruiters from other companies.

Thirty law schools have joined under the banner of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, claiming that they are being forced by the Solomon Amendment to “actively support military recruiters” who engage in “discriminatory hiring practices.” The target of their protest, they claim, is the Clinton administration’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy toward open homosexual service in the military.

In fact, colleges and universities have been trying to keep military recruiters and ROTC programs off campus for decades. Harvard, the school leading the charge against the Solomon Amendment, banished ROTC in 1969, forcing cadets to walk across town to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past 36 years. Yale, Stanford, Columbia and Brown are among many other institutions that have shunned ROTC for decades.

Today’s military relies on educated individuals joining the ranks as surgeons, JAG lawyers, chaplains and engineers. These vital roles could more easily and efficiently be filled but for the bitter opposition on campuses by elitist professors, students and administrators.

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looks like even hanging drawing and quartering is too good a bargain for terrorists, let’s lock them up in Saddam’s iron maiden:bigyikes:
 
Steve,

The girl in the picture I posted was killed when terrorists didn’t wait one block to attack a US convoy. Instead they drove through a crowd of kids and blew up a car bomb (probably forcing some blackmailed guy to blow himself up in the process.)

Do you know the terrorists in Iraq this weekend occupied a civilian hospital in Haditha and then used it as a fort with the patients as human shields even after one of their bombs set fire to the hospital? The US does all it can to avoid civilian casulties, as you know, but the terrorists seek out to kill the innocent. And would kill them my the millions if we left now. There is no doubt in anyones mind anymore who has the moral high ground in this war. I really don’t understand how you can support the terrorists.

I can’t see how a Catholic can be on the side of the terrorists in this war. This isn’t Vietnam, Steve. We made the mistake in Vietnam, left, and 3,000,000 people died. We are not going to make that mistake again in Iraq.
 
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Steve,

The girl in the picture I posted was killed when terrorists didn’t wait one block to attack a US convoy. Instead they drove through a crowd of kids and blew up a car bomb (probably forcing some blackmailed guy to blow himself up in the process).

Do you know the terrorists in Iraq this weekend occupied a civilian hospital in Haditha and then used it as a fort with the patients as human shields even after one of their bombs set fire to the hospital? The US does all it can to avoid civilian casualties, as you know, but the terrorists seek out to kill the innocent. And would kill them by the millions if we left now. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind any more who has the moral high ground in this war. I really don’t understand how you can support the terrorists.

I don’t know if you are Catholic, but I can’t see how a Catholic can be on the side of the terrorists in this war.
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As a Catholic, I condemn all instances of terrorism, regardless of the perpetrators or their intentions. Terrorism is intrinsically evil, and would remain so even if it could somehow cure cancer or heart disease.

We should recognize that morally unjust wars represent a form of terrorism–state terrorism. The Iraqi insurgents should stop attacking non-combatants, but the U.S. military should leave Iraq immediately.

The U.S. occupation of Iraq is inciting these horrendous acts of terrorism. This is one reason why this occupation must be ended. Instead of making Americans and Iraqis safer, this prolongation of an unjust invasion is making both peoples less safe.

The horrors now occurring in Iraq confirm the statement made by Pope John Paul II:

"War is a defeat for humanity."

Keep and spread the Faith.
 
Steve O'Brien:
The Iraqi insurgents should stop attacking non-combatants, but the U.S. military should leave Iraq immediately.
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What kind of wishful thinking is this?

Answer this straight: who should stop first, insurgents or our troops?
how can you make them keep their promise?
 
Steve O'Brien:
The Iraqi insurgents should stop attacking non-combatants, but the U.S. military should leave Iraq immediately.

The U.S. occupation of Iraq is inciting these horrendous acts of terrorism. This is one reason why this occupation must be ended. Instead of making Americans and Iraqis safer, this prolongation of an unjust invasion is making both peoples less safe.
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There is probably some inciting of the terrorists by America’s presence in the country. But that is not the major reason they are fighting now. They are fighting Iraq turning into a democracy. They are now intent on destroying that democracy and replacing it with their rule. That is why the Vatican wants us to stay.

The sad truth is that the terrorists don’t like democracy, they think it is anti-Islamic. And technically, it is. Islam teaches how a state should be ruled, and it isn’t by a democracy. You nor I are going to convince them otherwise.

If we leave now, they would take over. It is obvious that they have the will and the firepower to do so.

They also want a base of operations in Iraq like they had in Afghanistan, and they are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. If it means murdering children, they will (and have) murder children in cold blood. If it means putting explosives in an 18 year old boy’s body so that when his family comes to pick up the body, the bomb goes off, they will (and have) do that as well. There is no moral compass for them, none, zip, nada. They are evil, pure evil. And they want control of Iraq so they can launch their “Jihad” to restore the Caliphate. This isn’t fantasy, this is the real world. This is what they have told us they want to do. You need to believe them when they tell you what they want to do, because the history is that al-Qaeda follows through on trying to achieve their desires.
 
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