No Child Left Behind ... continues

George Bush' infamous "No Child Left Behind" has tragic repercussions in Iraq:
"A visibly-upset man held up a photo of one of the dead children..."

"Two toddlers have been killed by US air strikes which left another 13 people dead and at least 69 wounded in a Shi'ite stronghold of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

As doctors treated wounded men and boys, the bodies of the two young children, one in a nappy, lay on crumpled blankets in the morgue of Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City - the main stronghold in Baghdad for the Mehdi Army, a Shi'ite militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Clouds of black smoke rose from Sadr City as sirens wailed, heavy gunfire echoed and US attack helicopters circled overhead, according to television reports.

A visibly-upset man held up a photo of one of the dead children in a house where one of the toddlers lived and pointed to bloodstained mattresses and blood-splattered pillows.

Outside the house, a woman said: "We were waking in the morning and all of a sudden rockets landed in the house and the children were screaming."

"Toddlers killed in US air strikes on Iraq" Channel 4 ITN 21-Oct-2007

This is the legacy of this insanity. Why aren't millions of people in the streets everyday asking for war trials and appropriate punishment? Do they not realize that we have killed over a million people? And turned more millions into refugees? And is George able to have any vicarious feelings of what these people are going through, and does he understand for every innocent child killed and maimed there will be a cadre of people committed to revenge?

How can a man kill innocent people so simply?

"How can man kill innocent people so simply?" These are words of an Iraqi reporter after he left a man who lost his wife of 40 years to the senseless shooting by the Blackwater mercenaries.

And although this refers to the Blackwater forces, it also applies to president Bush, the Commander In Chief. He is responsible for the death, now of nearly 1,000,000 people. Most of them women and children. Most of them innocent. All of them dead.

And what about the refugees? A million? Two million?

But God knows, as does Allah. And if there is justice in this world, they will be tried, sentenced, and punished. But that will do almost nothing for the 40 years lost in a single thoughtless act. And almost nothing for the millions more who love someone else who has perished.

Quote from "An Iraqi view of Blackwater Killings -- from McClatchy Bagdad Staffe" Editor & Publishe 02-Oct-2007