Suffer the children of
By Mary MacElveen
June 3, 2007
The other day a CNN correspondent was questioning a voter in
It seems to me that no amount of screaming will end this war and Cindy Sheehan’s frustration is proof positive. She like others gave a son to this immoral cause and this government turned their backs on her and others like her.
In private emails I have stated, there are two kinds of political activists. Those who focus on campaigns and candidates and issue oriented activists. I consider myself part of the latter group. Personally, I cannot see writing in support of any candidate knowing how Iraqi children are suffering at the hands of our illegal occupation. I am sick and tired of the media heralding these candidates of both parties and touting how much money they have raised in campaign donations. That means little to me as I have seen the plight through pictures of children who should have had a life.
In the past few articles, I have focused primarily on our troops who also continue to suffer at the hands of this run-away freight train called the federal government. They continue to suffer at the hands of both Republicans and Democrats alike. Well today, I thought I would do a photo essay showing all of my readers only a few pictures of injured, dead and in two photos other Iraqi children who have suffered at the hands of our federal government.
Will someone please tell me how I am supposed to be excited about these upcoming presidential campaigns? What I do not see coming from the top-tier candidates of both parties is the willingness to end this madness, only to show how much money they have raised. Not one dime will come from me and if you are still angry, not one dime should come from you.
Like Cindy Sheehan, I am coming close to leaving the Democratic Party. I was once a Republican and left that party back in 1998 and at this point, I feel that both parties are beholden to special interest groups that only wish to promulgate this war. I wonder how much money by all of these candidates came from defense contractors and others that have profited handily from the killing of innocent children. If they have accepted these moneys, it is blood money and I want no part of any candidate that has accepted any donation from these special interest groups.
Below you will see these horrific photos and this was all done in our name by members of both parties. To those members of both houses of congress that failed in reading the full intelligence report before voting on the Iraq Resolution, you have murdered children. To those candidates that failed in reading that intelligence report; why should we even vote for you?
Ten-year-old Zainab Ali, a victim of a mini bus bomb explosion, look on in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Amil,
The grandmother of 11-year-old Mohammed Mahmoud Azzawi mourns behind the body of her grandson in a morgue in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of
A woman kisses the forehead of her son, who was wounded during an air strike, in a hospital in Baquba June 2, 2007. Five civilians were killed and three others were wounded while inside their houses during an air strike by the
A boy, who was wounded in a mortar attack, lies in an ambulance in Mahmoudiya, 30km (20 miles) south of
A young child lies on the floor of a camp for internally-displaced Iraqis in Najaf, 160 kms (100 miles) south of
A boy walks past a burnt car which was destroyed in a mortar attack in
Yes, I suppose the Iraq War has become what it is in which the American people are not being listened to by members of both parties. These children like American children deserved and still deserve the life of innocence. They like American children deserved and still deserve to play instead of running for their lives. Yet Washington, D.C. refuses to hear that. May God have mercy on their souls.
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