Wednesday, April 02, 2003 :::
Reading my email from Best of the Web.
Sky News http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12278356,00.html reports that "fanatical pro-Saddam Hussein fighters are shooting children in and around Basra, fleeing civilians told British forces. One mother told British medics her 12-year-old son was among dozens of youngsters gunned down by death squads."
In contrast, check out this New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01MILI.html?pagewanted=all report: "On the contested bridge in Hindiya, the captured town south of Baghdad, an American company commander, Capt. Chris Carter of Watkinsville, Ga., dashed to a wounded Iraqi woman in a black chador lying exposed to fire in the center of the span. Captain Carter crouched with his M-16 rifle to cover her position until medics could evacuate her by stretcher, according to journalists traveling with the unit." While Saddam Hussein murders Iraqi civilians in cold blood, America's fighting men risk their lives to save them.
Also,
The Telegraph reports that a local religious leader, Sheikh Malik Naqshbandi, has returned to the Kurdish village that was Ansar's headquarters and has now been liberated. "Sheikh Malik's house was used by Ansar and destroyed by an American missile. He said he didn't mind. 'I don't think there will be a happier day in my life.' "
I really want to give the Kurds a country. Maybe France.
::: posted by dWj at 11:23 AM
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