HOGpreacher

The New York Times

March 21, 2007
Iraq Bombers Blow Up 2 Children Used as Decoys
By KIRK SEMPLE


BAGHDAD, March 20 — Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.

Agence France-Presse, quoting an unidentified American military official, said the incident occurred Sunday. The bombers parked the vehicle across the street from a school then ran away, leaving the children inside, the official told the news agency. The blast killed the children and three other civilians and wounded seven, the official said.

The media would like us to think that all the problems, the unrest, the civilian deaths in Iraq are the fault of U.S. troops. It's not. I agree that civilians die at the hands of our troops but not specifically targeted. Yet, no one gets their pants in a wad when a homicide bomber uses civilians, children no less, to kill other civilians.

President Bush was correct in going to war, wrong in the way it was and is being conducted. Ironically, the other candidates and parties don't have any better solution.

Civilians are innocently dying because their own countrymen and women are targeting them and killing them. Hell, this has been going on for 5,000 years. Nothing is going to change the hatred. But brutality againt the innocent can if Congress lets the Generals fight the war and do the job they have been trained. To Kill the enemy.

Congress blame yourselves for this fiasco. Blame Al Queda, blame Hussein, blame the media.

Political entitlement cares nothing for civilians or democracy people here in the U.S. nor overseas.

Let's not re-elect any Congressman or woman next time around but place new blood and ideas in office for the sake of not only our country but for other nations as well.

Busch is out. Be very careful of who we vote into office. Otherwise, more civilians will die.

He or she might be you.