Comments on: Recovering Iraqi Orphans Face Bleak Future

Lara Logan Checks Back In With The 24 Boys Discovered Neglected Last Week

[harp1963]

Isn't there someone out there with money running out of their rear end who can help these children get out of Iraq and into some institution that can help them? My mom always used to say, "when you see someone worse off then you, you should think, by the grace of God there go I, nobody knows how souls are assigned."

Instead of buying the 80 million dollar yacht, help these "least of our brother."

[hi2you-2009]

We destroyed every bit of help that was given them,& for 4 years did nothing to help them. The aid money from thier government never gets there & we do not protect orphanages, mosques, museams or much else as far as that goes. We would need 2 million more troops.
Posted by j-whitman at 09:56 PM : Jun 20, 2007

If this were the case, why were there cloths & food provided for them? It was not us that destroyed every bit of help given to them, it was their caretakers! The food was there, but the workers were just looking out for themselves. They are the ones we should be pointing the finger at! They chose to make those boys suffer and should be punished severly!! How dare they harm poor, innocent children!

[seaslew]

WOW its a busy morning in here lol

[clestes-2009]

"As CBS News was filming new scenes on Wednesday, the minister was telling the nation these boys are perfectly healthy %u2014 and that Logan's report was a lie. "

Ah yes and these are the people our men are dying for?????????

This goes beyond outrage, beyond anger. It is the very betrayal of all we are suppose to stand for.

D.a.m.n. you forever Bush, Cheney and all your pals for putting our soldiers in such situation. These are people that do not understand democracy or human rights. They live by different rules than America and WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THEM.

[neenga]

Checking out the comments and I have an idea. Those angry, profane postings occurred well after midnight. Methinks those folks had dipped too deeply into the alky-hol.

[dea4him]

most of you guys are a bunch of inconsiderate idiots. Have you no compassion? These are CHILDREN!!! Who cares what country they live in? How dare you blame Bush on this? How could he be responsible? Did he arrange the government? Did he teach the people of Iraq to treat special needs children in this way? That is part of their culture, not a result of any American influence. I hardly ever respond to these posts, but your responses made me very angry. There are people in the United States that can't have children of their own, and would give an arm and a leg to have any one of these children in their homes to love and care for. I think it's terrible their government has pushed them aside, all but ignored them, and won't see to their educational needs! I am shocked that there are no Iraq families that will take them in and give them a home. It's terrible, and all you guys should be ashamed of yourselves for going on and on about Bush. You guys make me sick.

[jasonking4]

500,000 iraqi children died during the US led sanctions during the 90s (source: UNICEF). They were denied basic medicines, as medicines were included on the export ban list.


US secretary of state, Madeline Allbright was asked was it a price worth paying, she replied;


"Yes".

BTW its the politicians I can't stand who do things in our name, not the good soldiers who found these kids.

[rushlimpdrug]

"The boys were literally starving to death in a government-run orphanage for special needs children. . . ."
"The public pressure forced the Labor and Social Affairs Minister to speak out %u2014 but instead of taking responsibility, he lashed out at the U.S., calling America Iraq's enemy. "

Government-run orphanage?
Is the government America is backing?
Those people sound like trash-let them stay over there.
They don't know how to feed a child?
This story sounds more like a bad joke.

[antoniof123]

The neo con party just screams and yells, this reminds me of how they used the system in the 90's to get there way. Oh but along came the Internet in full swing and come to find out you can't control it like you could the media and people really don't support you like you said they did.

So stop you spin it won't work you did what you did for power. Now we the American people must clean up your mess. Once again I say you kind should have to pay for this war tax the day lights out of you ilk that way the next time when someone screams we need to fight them there or will be fighting them here they might think twice because they will have to pay for the mess they start.

[mudrose-2009]

j-whitman - You, sir/madam, are an excellent argument against pro-life.
Yours must be a miserable existence, so filled with hate. Without knowing your background, I can't know whether to fear, hate or pity you.
I do know this: You are sorely misguided.

Posted by Hedonist3

He'll soon start singing his tune on Dafur. I believe the guy is a muslim sympathizer. It's a good thing our Troops found these little guys. But of course, that's Bush's fault too. Seems to me that if the Minister himself is screaming that our Troops are lying, then there is more of these instances spread throughout Iraq. Thatlashing out sort of expresses to me that the lack of concern for children of special needs just got exposed. Sort of reminds me if you look at those old movie reels of the day Eisenhower walked into a Nazi concentration camp dismayed at the sight of living skeletons roaming about those camps. Interesting that Lt. Smith is a special ed teacher, after all we only send the ignorant overseas, right?