While this may not strictly be desecration of a religious icon or leader, such as a cleric, what is that old saying about children being the closest thing to God?
A suicide car bomb exploded next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys, killing 18 children and teenagers Wednesday. Parents heard the shattering explosion and raced out to the discover the worst — children’s mangled, bloodied bodies strewn on the street.
Up to 27 people were killed by the blast in the Shiite Muslim neighborhood, including an American soldier. At least 70 people were injured, a newborn and three U.S. soldiers among them.
Children’s slippers lay piled near the blast crater not far from a crumbled child’s bicycle as blood pooled in the street.
Twelve of the dead were 13 or younger and six were between 14 and 17, said police Lt. Mohammed Jassim Jabr. Among the wounded was 4-day-old Miriam Jabber, cut slightly by flying glass and debris.
These are he people you call "insurgents" and "freedom fighters," libs. Do you support this kind of activity? Or will you finally wake up and smell the coffee? Your actions embolden the terrorists, and that’s what they are, to commit these kinds of atrocities.
"The foreign terrorists … see the Iraqi people, including Iraqi children, as cannon fodder to be sacrificed in the pursuit of an extremist agenda of conflict between civilizations," Khalilzad told reporters. "Hard-line Baathists want a civil war as a vehicle to restore their dictatorship, and if they cannot win power, to take Iraq down with them."
Get it?
I don’t know what to say other than…EVIL…pure freakin EVIL!
“if they cannot win power, to take Iraq down with them”
That really does say it all.