Breaks my heart: “rivers of blood” of innocent people

As the mother of a mentally disabled child, reading this makes me ache all over. Bush must be held accountable for this senseless bloodshed.

Grieving Iraq family sees no end to “rivers of blood”
(Reuters)

23 October 2005

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/October/focusoniraq_October145.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Adel Abed Hammed was a skinny 31-year-old so withdrawn he sometimes went days without talking to anybody and would let only his mother touch him.

Mentally ill since childhood, he used to wander the streets of Baghdad alone. One day he chanced on some American soldiers who shot him dead after he took fright at a bullet fired over his head.

“I wouldn’t feel such misery if he wasn’t so sick but that makes it double for me,” said his mother. “He was like a child.”

The 62-year-old Baghdad housewife is one of many thousands of Iraqis who are mourning sons and daughters killed in a conflict that has also claimed the lives of nearly 2,000 US troops. Many Iraqis, like Adel, have been killed by American soldiers.

SNIP