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| You’ve broken your word, says Baghdad boy who lost his arms |
| 2003-04-15 |
| Ali Ismail Abbas, the 12-year-old Baghdad boy who lost his arms in a US air strike, yesterday accused the media of letting him down. He does not want sympathy. Speaking with fluent indignation, in his grimy ward in Chewader hospital, he demanded to know why numerous promises that he would be treated in the West had not been kept. "The journalists always promise to evacuate me - why don't they do it now?" he asked, his brow furrowed with pain and glistening with sweat. "Please take me out of Iraq to be safe and cured." Poor kid, he's learning the hard way that a journalist's job is to chatter and posture, and NOTHING ELSE. If anyone comes through for him, and I hope they will, it'll be the U.S. military docs. |
| Posted by:Bent Pyramid |
| #8 Where is a photograph of this child? Shouldn't we have a photograph of this child so we can raise some help for him? |
| Posted by: Compassion for the kid 2003-04-15 22:03:05 |
| #7 The journalists always promise to evacuate me - why don't they do it now?" Trust CNN |
| Posted by: john 2003-04-15 21:14:47 |
| #6 Anonymo -- the new Weapon of Mass Disgust! Mike N -- actually, I think he's more like the dorky guys in that infamous Saturday Night Live skit where William Shatner goes to a Trek convention. You know, the one where he riffs about 38 year olds who live in their parents' basements and have never kissed a girl. |
| Posted by: Baba Yaga 2003-04-15 20:38:30 |
| #5 Whenever I read the word "Anonymo", I picture some dorky super-hero wannabe in a Superman knock-off outfit (picture a big A,instead of S)wearing horn-rim glasses. Wish he'd suffer the same fate too. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2003-04-15 16:48:55 |
| #4 Speaking of the NION ass-clowns: Couldn't it be said that the people who were freed from wrongful and barbaric imprisonment in Iraq were MOST DEFINITELY not freed in the names of Charlie Sheen ... Susan Sarrandon ... Danny Glover ... Jenean Grrrrrafalo ... (etc. ad nauseam)? I think they should be made to sign another letter stating that blatant human rights violations are far less important to them than attempting to besmirch the name and reputation of our sitting President. |
| Posted by: Samma-lamma 2003-04-15 16:35:38 |
| #3 A request: please ban the IP from which Anonymo is commenting - he is quite obivously a US troll who is here only to disrupt, not to contribute. Probably a NION type protester who is a sore loser and cannot admit that he was wrong. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2003-04-15 14:20:43 |
| #2 ::sniff sniff:: Is that troll dung I smell? |
| Posted by: Samma-lamma 2003-04-15 14:20:13 |
| #1 yeah...the us likes to grab it's glory, just ask gen custer about this. [dam them unchristian indians!!!] |
| Posted by: Anonymo 2003-04-15 13:02:09 |