Front-paged and above the fold!
Just remember, as you read these excerpts, this NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED had WE NOT INVADED IRAQ -- something the paper the author works for (and its parent owner) pushed whole-heartedly, and which is now pushing for confrontation with Iran.
"The end of Rakan's war; Life asked far too much of Rakan Hassan, the Iraqi boy brought to Boston in 2005 for treatment after a mistaken shooting by American troops. The next chapter of his story is hard to write" by Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist | August 3, 2008
Rakan Hassan flashed his famous smile during a physical therapy session in Boston in November 2005. (Globe Staff Photo / Michele McDonald)
"Rakan Hassan had been shot and paralyzed, his parents killed, when American soldiers panicked and opened fire on the family car as it sped toward them in the fading light of dusk.
Rakan Hassan, the boy whose life Larry Ronan saved, the boy I sat with most days for five months, the boy who became my sons' friend, the boy who touched anybody and everybody he met, was killed in June when a bomb exploded at his family's home in Mosul. He was 14 years old. Two of his sisters - an infant and a teenager - were injured in the attack but are expected to recover.
It happened June 16, but given the madness that is Iraq, it took us weeks to confirm. We got a death certificate the other day and so now we know for sure.
Rakan's case caught the eye of humanitarians because his shooting was captured in a series of haunting photographs by Chris Hondros, a photographer for
If some Americans unintentionally orphaned and paralyzed Rakan, others intentionally set out to help him, to show Rakan and other Iraqis that there was another side to Americans, those who would drop everything, do anything, for a kid.
Yeah, we are SO GREAT!!!
We will KILL MILLIONS of them, but WE LOVE IRAQI KIDS!! We "liberated" them!!!!
US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary, who agreed on nothing else, agreed to work together to cut through the red tape to get Rakan to the United States for the treatment he needed.
That would be the WAR-CRIMINAL TORTURER Don Rumsfeld, right?
Ray Tye, the Boston philanthropist, agreed to pay for everything - a Jewish guy who made his money in the liquor business became the benefactor of a Muslim child.
Yeah, isn't it great Isarel funneled a bunch of lies to their Zionist puppets here in the U.S. so we could destroy Iraq?
Made his $$$ in liquor, huh? I've spent so much time on this blog commenting on that kind of crap, pfffft!
Yup, the GREAT JEWISH BENEFACTORS of the MUSLIMS, yes sir!!!!
All of us who cared about this boy, who loved this boy, are left to wonder: Did we do something, however unwittingly, that got him killed?
Yeah, how about the paper you work for ginning this country up for the invasion with a bunch of craphole lies, for starters?
Yeah, but we did it because we love the Iraqis, I know, I know....
(you can not see this blog authors pain right now, but it is on the face as I type)
Did somebody somehow read Rakan's story, maybe online, and set out to kill him and his family, to prove that anybody who takes sweets or help or anything from the Americans is a collaborator who shall die the death of an infidel?
Did those who murdered him find out he had been seen by US Army medical personnel in Iraq? He hadn't been to a US facility in more than a year, precisely to guard against that prospect. But memories are long in Iraq and people talk.
Did those who planted the bomb target Rakan's brother-in-law because he has a job doing security work for Iraqi authorities?
We don't know. Maybe we'll never know. There are competing theories, and they are as Byzantine as the place that produces them.
We only know that a boy is dead.
Need I link all the links (see end of post)?
Rakan suffered. He saw his parents die, their blood splattering him and his siblings in the back seat of a car that had strayed too close to US soldiers in fear for their own lives.
Yes, make excuses for the occupation.
The US soldiers wouldn't be fearing for their lives at this all-too-common, yet undercovered (by a Zionist-controlled, war-promoting, agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM I might add) incident if they hadn't been SENT THERE on a PACK of LIES!!!! But they MUST STAY even if they were sent there on a pack of lies -- FOR OIL, EMPIRE and Iz-ray-HELL!!!!!!!!!!
He endured the pain of being shot, the agony of being paralyzed, the desperate realization that he was withering away in a corner. And when he got here, there was the heartache of separation, the isolating loneliness of not being able to speak or understand the language of everyone around him, the longing for the only home he knew, even if that home was in the most dangerous place in the world."
Well, THAT will make a tear come to your eye, 'eh?
And THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE in the WORLD?!?
Worse than say, Zimbabwe or Somalia or Sudan, or, or, or...
But, but, but... SURGE took care of that, I heard!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
To read more about how great we AmeriKans are, go here
As for the spam and the mistrust, blah, blah, blah, I don't care anymore.
I moved along....
