Can You spot the Difference Between These Two Wounded Children? (An Iraqi Mother Can't)

By Um Thalit, Gorilla's Guides
Posted on April 10, 2008, Printed on November 26, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://gorillasguides.com//81999/

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Spot the difference between these two children:







Did you spot the difference -- it's not the obvious one that one is a boy and one is a girl.

The answer is below the fold:

The difference between the two is that the The girl was wounded in the roadside bombing attack on a bus south of Baqubah. The boy was wounded in one of several American rocket attacks on Sadr city today.



Can you spot the difference between the child killer who uses a roadside bomb which is a notoriously imprecise weapon without any regard to civilian casualties to achieve his objective and the American child killer who fires a rocket at a densely populated civilian area without any regard to civilian casualties to achieve his objective?

No, neither can I because there is none. The target of that particular airstrike was a school by the way. There is absolutely no difference whatsoever between the two. None. They are both barbarians. Neither of the two types of barbarian are welcome here. I am a mother, I am Iraki, those could be my children, I know plenty of of young mothers whose children have been murdered by the barbarism that America brought here and continues to foster here. Do not expect me to feel even the slightest pity for any American who is here as part of the American war against my children. What I feel is exactly the same as what I feel when I hear that a bomber has been killed. Relief. Relief that that is one less child murdering pig to prey upon my children and satisfaction that a barbarian got what was coming to them.

Um Thalit.

Um Thalit is an Iraqi blogger with Gorilla's Guides

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