Iraqi Boy Loses His Eye To US Gunfire......

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.children/index.html



Baha, 12, waits for treatment in an Iraqi Red Crescent center after shrapnel pierced his left eye.

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The group gets some financial support from the central government. It's also negotiating with the U.S. Embassy, he said, to see if it can offer financial aid. But funds are low.

Just recently, the group closed 18 camps for the winter and is trying to house those thousands of people in abandoned government buildings.

At a waiting room at an Iraqi Red Crescent treatment center in Baghdad's Mansour district, CNN came across several young children in desperate need of care. But they were among the lucky ones -- if that term can even be applied -- because their parents remain with them.

Baha, a 12-year-old boy, was waiting to see a doctor, recalling the exact date -- January 16, 2004 -- he lost his left eye. "I want my eye to get well," he said.

Baha was with his father in a market when someone opened fire on U.S. soldiers. When the soldiers fired back, shrapnel hit his eye. Despite what happened, this brave boy still goes to that same market. "I'm not afraid," he said.

Yeah, well it's a stupid fucking story, like the Iraqi kid what's his name Ali that we helped. Big fucking deal. We killed 73 like him last week. And 73 like him starved or had diarheaa or mourned their mother or didn't go to school or some shit BECAUSE OF OUR NOXIOUS PRESENCE in "their homeland". So fuck this story CNN.

It is only 1 billion times worse, so fuck your story and your criminal trivialization.

The CNN International segments yesterday on this story were well done. I only wished it reached more people. They interviewed the president of the IRC and talked of the children suffering. I only wished they had mentioned the over ONE MILLION dead. :(