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In reply to the discussion: Ya Know... For Every Person Accusing Some Of Us Of Being "Purists", I Would Love To Know... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)horrific tragedies into a political attempt at 'gotcha'. AND you asked a question you did not know the answer to. Iow, you ASSUMED something you had no clue about.
In 2004 I supported ONLY those candidates who opposed that murderous invasion.
Clearly you voted for political reasons. I did not.
Another image embedded forever in my mind is of a little boy named Ali. CNN made the error, from the Warmongers pov, of covering the aftermath of the first bombs that fell on Baghdad before they got the message from the warmongers that the American people must not see the results of their murderous campaign.
He was a child, his arms and legs were blown off, he had stomach wounds and was in unbearable pain. His entire immediate family, pregnant Mom, Father and siblings had been murdered as they slept in their apartment. The hospital did not have enough medicine to treat all the wounded including Ali.
His only remaining relative, an Aunt, was trying to comfort him. No legs, no arms, no pain killers, he was calling for his mom.
It was 2 or 3 AM here, I can't remember the exact time.
And then we never saw any more of our victims.
I heard later that that brief coverage of the one child, got the attention of people who were able to get him out of Iraq where he would surely have died, where he was treated as much as it is possible to treat someone so badly wounded, both pysically and emotionally.
I have wondered since then what happened to him. And to all the other children the warmongers are responsible for.
Kerry was at the bottom of my list of candidates. I wondered how he jumped from approx 3% approval rating to winning. Now I think I know.