July 13, 2005

The Kind of People We Fight in Iraq

The Mudville Gazette has a chilling account of a terrorist attack in Iraq and its aftermath.

Many, if not most of the dead were children loitering and playing near U.S. soldiers at an impromptu checkpoint in Baghdad al-Jadida, a lower-middle class residential district populated by Shiites, Sunnis and Christians.

Near the charred, shrapnel-scarred bombing scene, women draped in black abayas wept as they walked by, and dazed children with tears in their eyes wandered amid bits of metal and bloody human remains. A pile of children's slippers lay on the street.

Tell me again how these terrorists are freedom fighters. Tell me how they are Iraqi patriots and I’ll tell you have your head up you’re a**.

If you want to know, what these murderous thugs are really like, click the link and read the whole thing. It’ll break your heart.

Greyhawk ends his post with . . .

Some day you may hear someone describing the virtues of the "resistance" or "freedom fighters" in Iraq, or claiming moral equivalence between these animals and coalition soldiers. You may even hear someone say we're on a "crusade" against Muslims. When you do, send them here.

Posted by Ted at July 13, 2005 9:39 PM