who cares about the journalists that die---its their choice!!! What about the troops who dont have a choice for this uncaring nation. Pull out and leave this mess behind and then come in and take out what takes over and start the pecking order over!!! Trust me this is advice from within iraq!!!

I think about it every day as well. My heart breaks for these people caught in the middle, just wanting to live their lives. I am not blaming America at all by any means, I do believe we are trying to help and have their best interests in mind. I just wish there was something I could do to help all the innocents out there. Like a mission or something to help spread the love, bring some relief and peace. I know that is totally utopistic but I can't help it.

Two of the three reporters dead were killed in a US airstrike targeting terrorist. If these "journalist" want to play on the side of the enemy then they will be treated as the enemy. The media made it clear during President Bush's press conference whose side they're on but no matter how many anti-American stories the media plants in order to run the US out of Iraq our President just ain't taking this defeatist bait.

Iam a single mother of three children with a $1000.00 rent and I would gladly offer $25.00 to 4 families every month until this is over.(war)

As sad as all this is the choices are theirs to make.One thing is certain as long as they don't help the people defending their homeland they will be victims of the enemy.The American forces would be happy to take food to them.All they have to do is what's good for their families.The population could shorten the war but choose not to out of whatever reason they want to give.

"..."Tell you what you could do though," he added. "All each family needs is $25 to help them survive."

"How many families?" I asked. "Fifty," he said.

My heart wanted to pull out my purse and empty it for them right there. My head said that wouldn’t work.

What about all the other families who need help? There are millions of them. Where do you draw the line?..."

Where do you draw the line?  I suggest a different cliche:  You have to start somewhere.

It is time that we pony up and get the people in Iraq who are helping us, (the cilvilians) the money they need to eat.  An empty baby's stomach will turn a country against us as quickly as a our bullets do, so we should have civilians here who raise money for those who help there sons and daughters over there. It is called winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, who, if they took our side, could help us end this war quickly, by turning in Al Quiada terrorists. The Iraqis'  fear them but yet, are starting to turn them in and have begun fighting them themselves, as well. That is, in my opiniuon, the beginning of the end of terrorism in Iraq, so feed the civlians who are on our side!    JDB

I do feel very bad for these people, but seems to me if they would all band together and fight for their own country they could change their horrible situation. But, it is easy for me to say that, I am not there. If the U.S. would just pull out we could use some of those billions we are spending on the war to help these people rebuild their country. But when you have Omar here and Atule over there and Ali in the middle and all fighting each other rather than pulling together, well I just see no solution. Can't help people who won't help themselves.

Reopen the staterun companies (for the price of just a few bombs) and employ tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.

That will help everyone. Happy well fed people don’t do desperate things for money

People like that would be damned if we pull out of Iraq, and some individuals who don't care about that or them or the other people who risk everything for democracy and freedom over there make me sick. People like that got off on the slaughter of the Hungarians in 1956 too, makes them feel good. Forget that, people like those reporters can be the future of the Middle East if we can stick it out and back them up. We should, it is the right thing to do, to hell with polls or politics or naysaying coat-holders for tyranny.

After reading this story and looking at the weekly photo spread from Iraq, it is apparent that the Iraqi people are blaming everything on the Americans. In as much as 90% of the civilians are killed by roadside and suicide bombers it makes me wonder why the Iraqi's are not willing to blame the carnage on the real enemy and do something about the problem themselves.

I have yet to read a single story about anyone in Iraq being convicted of making car bombs or roadside bombs.  Let's face it,  we cant wn a war when both (or all three) sides are agaoinst us.  It's time to go home and let this work itself out so we will have a single Iraq enemy to fight, not 10 different wacko groups.

No matter what ones point of view may be on the war there are still people caught in the middle. Both our brave soldiers and innocent Iraqis. I honestly feel for the children involved from both parties. I for one would gladly deploy if I knew I would be armed not with guns but with the help that these people need.  

I am not in Iraq, I live in the USA.  I have no idea how difficult it is over there.  Be in a journalist or an Iraqi civilian, there are too many people losing lives there.  The Iraqi people need to get their government together and have rules and laws.  Al Quadi needs to be destroyed over there.  What is Nouri Al (the Iraqi president doing)?

I feel bad for the soilders who have been engaged in this conflict.  They have risk (and some given) both life & limb.  For this they deserve our support and respect.  However, thru no fault of thier own, this is a BIG POLITICAL HOLE in which to throw money and resources.  I say "Get Out", come home, secure our own borders and regroup.  At least then we will know what resources our enemy has or doesn't have.  Enlist and train ALL of our Mexican Alies who want to ride the American Dream, send them over in waves and if they make a (12) month tour of duty give them citizenship.  THERE IS THE ANSWER TO A SIMPLE QUESTION.  

THIS IS THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED IN VIETNAM THE POPULATION TURNED ON THE U.S. BECAUSE THEY WERE DESTROYING THEIR WAYS TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES. THINK ABOUT IT IF AN OUTSIDER CAME TO HELP YOU AND DESTRUCTION AND DEATH WAS ALL THAT YOU SAW FROM THEM. WOULD YOU WANT TO HELP THEM OR YOUR OWN KIND? THEIR ARE GOOD PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ALL THEY WANT OUT OF LIFE IS TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN. SO GIVE THEM JOBS AND LET THEM REBUILD WHAT YOU HAVE DESTROYED BY BEING THERE. By rebuiliding you show that you really do care. That the enemy is the ones who kills and moves on and never helps right the wrong they have done.
I can shoot my mouth off for I'm a Vietnam vet and saw this exact thing turn friends into enemy. Generals win wars politicans ruin it! If you haven't been there and done that then let people who have take care of it.

somehow wolfe I see this happening. ITs unfortunate that we couldnt keep to the orginal plan of afghanastan and now they are rising up. There is alot of chatter like before they struck us pre-9/11.  All of our troops are in Iraq. I think we should be in Afghanastan. looking for the real leaders because now there is a big mess brewing and we unfortunately seem to be in the middle of it.  God bless our troops. Keep them safe. They need our strength and let GOD lead them home in one piece.

ill tell you what the problem is.america is not taking care of american people.the jobs are gone and everywhere i go has been taken over by foreiners. if we pull out of the war you can stick your head between you legs and kiss your ass good-bye. we need to stick togeather and finish this thing.we have given up our rights because of media whining and crying about whats right and wrong instead of sticking togeather to finish what we started.they came to our country and now they want to take over.well i know they have suceeded in my neighborhood and if we don't do something right now its going to be to late.im 37 white american and if our goverernment don't get their heads out of there ass there going to be evan a bigger problem.give up and get out would be big mistake.finish this thing now.imigration is out of control.

if we go to war to sit on our butts and do nothing there is going to be bigger problems to worry about.american people are risking their lives for us.we at least should do what we planned to do and do what we set out to do.americans need to stick up for their rights and finish this war now.we have given up to much and now is the time to start fight back.in and out of our country.if people don't understand whats going on then thats there problem but as for me our government is responsible for the lies and deception of our troops and the people.

finish this war before its to late.don't pull out and deliver the knock-out punch.if not were doomed in america.it's already being taken over by the foreign people.i lived in my neighbor for 30 yrs and i can't even understand what the american people are doing to ourselves and to our country.

Why doesn't Dr Phill get into foriegn policy therapy?
I wonder how many Americans belive the US is or ever was trying to help the Iraqi people or protect us? Of course we shouldn't trouble ourselves with thinking about, Bombing in Iraq for years prior to invasion, the phony 9/11 link & they were told no 9/11 link with Iraq, Bin Ladens Videos where he mentions Palestinians living in fear, WMD, an attack on us in 40 mins, Woferwitzs' Office of special plans actions, Uranium & tube sourcing frauds, US permanent bases in Iraq......the Iraqi people are desperate and I think bombs only help "vested interests".....BF

The U.S should have taken out Sadam by one of our sniper including two of his son. All these MESS is all because of bush's henchmen for giving him wrong intel, cover ups and so forth. All those innoscent live should be alive today and enjoying the life that their god had given to them. O yeah we have to use a full force coz we couc=dn;t even take Fidel Castro during the bay of the Pigs coz all of our spies got caught and killed by castro. When i was growing up, i thought CIA, NSA, FBI is the best of the best but,NUH>>>>>>>>

Sorry, no sympathy for folks who CHOOSE to be in harm's way.  They know the risk going in...cry me a river.

What really saddens me is how they (the Iraqi's) don't even have much of a choice. They can become a journalist and risk getting kidnapped or killed, they can try and join the army or police- and assuming they manage- risk getting killed or kidnapped, beg which carries the risk of being shot for nothing, join the insurgent groups (who pay rather well and often give out food to their supporters in need) which offers the risk of being killed or captured but offers the best "return". It would be nice if factories could be setup to employ thousands as Hb suggests, but we should all realize that won't be happening anytime soon. Given that a police station in the Green Zone isn't safe from a carbomb attack, any idea how long (or short) a factory full of thousands of potential victims would last?
Hopefully we can all be at least a little bit more compassionate and understanding about the not-so-much-a-choice act of being an Iraqi Journalist in Iraq.
God bless ALL who are trying to help that war torn country!

I think we need to get our troops out of there let these people fight their own war, like they've been doing for hundreds of years!!
there is no hope for middle-eastern people, they are violent by nature and will always be fighting till the day thay die!!!
WHAT A WASTE OF MY MONEY!!!!

Journalists and anyone else opposed to Allah's law becoming implemented in what is now called "iraq", who is allied or working to provide ANY assistance to those who oppose al-shariah, whether it be food, weapons, shelter, or ANYTHING to interfere with the coming rule of Shariah in what is called "Iraq", are legitimate targets in the "nation-state" you call "Iraq". Al-Shariah will rule in that land, whether it be 5 years from now or 500 years from now. Muslimeen wa mujahideen will not stop against the enemies of Allah. You think this all started in 2003? Mujahideen were car-bombing, shooting, targeting, and killing the baathist regime members and collaboraters LONG before the USA attacked the taghout regime of the kaafir murtaad Saddam Hussein 1991. May he enter the hellfire forever, without 1 second of relief.

To all, let all the people in the white house, senate congress, especially democrats that does not have a ball but create more chaos in an already messed up situation,. Send them to IRAQ in the front line and i bet you they will change their mind and let everybody go home and stop mendling with others business.
They don't like us in the middle east in the first place let them solve their own problem, the only thing is that, it was GWB and his top Leutinants, generals and the confused CIA and FBI's who started all these mess. GWB has put more fuelto the fire in that region. They themselves does not like each other, they don't care about the lost lives of their countryman... They follow their Muhammahd, Muhahmmad the warrior who is against any form of oppression for who oppressed his people death will be the answer. Muhammad is a lover of death, hatred, just like what Pope Benidict has said. Do you all think the pope was not thinking when he said that? You're all wrong. Don't just read about what the quran said but the history of all the middle eastern in whole, then you will understand what kind of people we are dealing with. Bless all those U.S soldiers, marines,Navy and Airforce all over the world. God Bless America.

Our country has gotten into a HOT mess mainly because of the arrogant pig headedness of the buss family.

That is the bottom line.

There is no concievable end to this situation that would put our country in a more powerful position by occupying this nation.  The resources we use to maintain that situation cause us to weaking our position and other countries like CHINA and RUSSIA and even the South American countries to increase their economic power so once the situation stablizes (1000 years)then will our SUPER power still be in the states.

Give them back their dignity.....if you can.....see you can help without spending a single dollar .......   :)
See everybody wants to help...why?....bcos some are really kind ( like mother Teressa )
and some wants to show kindness. Its a nice getaway for all the wrong
they do in their daily chores. Its a license for them to again do something
wrong.Dont show kindness by giving a $25 for ok! a million family......go out
there...live their lives....and see if you can make a difference....u need
to be there to do it....just dont post it through a money order or by sending an army......  :) Thats not the way to help someone....or ru trying to show kindness.......   :)


That guy who declined our hero`s food offerings, was may be afraid that
he may have to face repurcussions if someone sees him having an alliance with
a westerner. Quite possible!!! But it is also quite possible that it was a very
silent way of telling my hero `Please get the hell out of my country.
Nobody asked you to come to my country. We did not send a SOS to
UN to help us out. Because even though you are trying to help me,
the fact of the matter is it is an extra in your kitchen that i have to feed on..... a left over that you are trying to help me with...
if you are so concerned with ppl who live on $25 dollars only ..then respect that left over keep it for yourself and take it the next day....
dont give it just bcos you want to `help` bcos you have already have had ur share...and then may be thought ok i can now `help` a bit..... i would rather die of hunger..rather than be
fed on leftovers....... and yes you can laugh at me you can say ur poor ur dieing u have false dignity......i wont mind`.

                      There are birds who commit mass suicide. There are tribes who kill themselves
if they find themselves defeated. I think the terrorists are trying to achieve the same. They are killing
the people, they know is their own people,in at least they follow their own religion, just to keep their
dignities intact. I know i may be wrong, but its possible. It happens. The terrorists have an agenda to kill westerenrs, for religious beleifs. Such a feeling is wrong.
But right now in Iraq i feel they have a different agenda. I think they are just trying to protect their dignity by killing themselves. And yes Americans please feel
you have won. ` Please feel you have won Yes!! you have won....you are on top...you are the world`s best`....I am telling this from the core of my heart. I mean it.
Please do not suffer from low self esteem that you couldnot do anything for me, please bcos the more you do that.....the more danger i am put into!!!. you blame me when u leave the country. dont take it urself, bcos then again u wud feel
that u have not done enough and again come back......and again i have to feed on your left overs!!!!!!!!

Nobody wants `kindness`. Its wrong to give help. Live and let live.

I have a small word for all the Americans here. I have a bunch of dogs
here, i love them. One has got a tumour, one rabies,two have got skin disease,
the male one kills the puppies. But still i love them. They eat from the dustbin. But you know they are all happy.
They have their own families....yes true!!! mother father everythig. I only help them when the mother cant protect her puppies
from the rain. I know i could have done better for them. But what would it lead to, spaying them?......putting a collar around their necks,
make them watch some damn daily soap with me. No....I cant do that. Rather they bite each other..its better, and really if you see them closely they are not
really biting each other, they are actually playing. There is traffic jam when they cross the road.  Everyone has to wait. they curse them. But still they are free...they have not lost their dignity. they just :)~ us when we curse them....lol.
and torn many shirts and pants of mine......i give them food only once in a while.

Dont worry this crank is not an American....   :) i just told this to assure you that no there are no dogs in america with a skin disease or rabies....dont worry...   :)

I am not big enough to give you a single dollar!!!!!!!!nope i am not that great.

We do need a humanitarian effort there....at the
same time these people seem to have no respect for
life....execute an 11yr old girl???? WTH is that??
This stuff makes me angry and if IRAN is behind the
problem then maybe we need to show them a real War.
We seem to have only played at this at the cost of
too many  American lives....kind of like VietNam and
we know how that turned out. Maybe this should end
WWII style...We should also LOCK THEIR BORDERS. No
entry no exit. Then kill anyone trying to enter.
We have played at this too long and it will not end
this way. Their religous crap needs to be shut down
what religon condones this kind of behaviour...Theirs
seems to condone evil...When things get tough..get tougher

If you really cared you should have opened your purse. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. You had the oppprtunity to provide one on one help, to change a family, in the way they think about Americans and you chose to turn your back to someone in need. Is this the ugly American?

no matter how you give someyhing for for the journalist the situation still goin worst above all things, but here's my comment about iraq- what did the americans do by the time they have civil war, and why most of our troops got killed by a bomb of any kind, is that mean our troops cant avoid it why not used american bombs to to kill the bombers bomb them all so they will see how strong the american bomb show them our bomb so they will stop intimadating the US forces  

if iraqi bomb kill our troop why not used our strongest bomb against them soo they will see our bomb is not a joke stop the intimadation just show to them our capability, dont let this iraqis or iranians think that our troops are lousy and easy to kill by there homemade bombs- and what, i thought our bombs are more sophisticated and powerfull how come our troops can get killed easilly by a iraqi firecrakers hey whats wrong commanders

why not use camera on the streets to keep track of iraqi planting road side bombs so they can get into the master mind or let the village poeple to police there vicinity and reports acitvities to the military or just give them the lesson like we did in hirosima and nagasaki im sure they will stop

Lets see, latest report says we spent $10 billion per month in Iraq, plus $2 billion more in other places, like Afganistan. That comes out to about $20 or so per day per person. Rather than spending it the we are now, why don't we load up some C130s with $100 (or $20s or whatever) and just fly over the countries and dump it out the rear hatch. This will stop the fighting as the whole population scrambles to collect it. Better yet-want to get rid of the opium fields?-- Dump it over the opium fields and watch the farmers cut it down to retrieve the cash. Do this periodically, and watch the level of violence go way down. Costs the same (or less) with no lives lost, and the money goes to the people who need it most and can use it best (not greedy contractors or Al-Q terrorists)

As an Egyptian-American Christian woman, I agree with the last statement about opening up the companies and giving people back their jobs.  If we give money, it always ends up in the wrong hands.   The people will never get it.   I am beyond proud to be American and am very lucky to have lived in this country my entire life.  However, the poverty in that region of the world, even without the war, is staggering.  Children are literally starving to death.  It has been worse since the war since people are not receiving their meager salaries.  The comment about nothing will turn someone toward the enemy like a starving child, is completely true.   If your child was starving, think about what you would do to feed your child.  It breeds desperateness

 
  I always wonder what a Middle East without islam would be like .Islam is their problem .Its islam that says they cant have infidels as friends, In islam you cant have dogs as pets , you cant go swimming except you wear a hijab or burqa , you cant have opposite sex friends, you cant even shake the opposite sex hands it goes on and on It limits your life so much that when the man wanted food from Americans islamic society was their to judge him most Americans are good natured and dont know the weight these people put on you Im sorry for them but on the other hand
this hand your dealt when you adopt this religion and government

Hi,The American Generals and high ranking officers are going to milk this cow as long as they can, It's all about money in the pocket. Bring our troops home.

If all the people of the western world would simly twin them selves with another pearson in an easton country.They could and would soon create a world of comon good for all on this planet.In the words of Mahatna Gandy"love and Truth  will prevail.But first talk we must.

It is their job, they now the dangers involved.  Just like the solders. They usually don't report the truth anyway.

agreed we need to settle this issue with the terrorists, they have not only hurt us but more importantly they have hurt their own people, I find that intolerable in the least, if in fact they were trying to save their own people i believe our president would have backed away but when the terrorists kill their own we have to be able to protect all citizens to the best of our abilities.

     Pony up   guys  and pull out of there , We are there for all the wrong reasons , Let them be and let them  settle there own  never ending  war  or  wars, I do feel  bad for the  people there that want to live a  comfortable life and feed there  children
 We could use all the war money to  help  our own  people

What can be done to help those desperate families?  Is there a way to get money to them?  There are many Americans who would want to help.

Does anyone remember that we have people in the US that need help. You don't have to spend your money half way around the world just down the block. I am not insensitive but my children and grandchildren come first. Somehow, we don't attack on neighbors because of religious differences ( at least, not yet ) and wonder, what went wrong? When they learn to deal with their own problems, the suffering will be on the way to ending. Keep sending money and see how it helps ( trillions later and no end in sight ).

Lets worry the starving children right here at home. Not the journalists who decide to go over there for their own financial gain if they feel so bad give out of their own pockets. I agree with wolf from Iraq leave and let them fight it out then who ever takes over remove them from power. Why is it our issue bring home the troops . If Pres. Slaughter Bush wasn't so worried about the oil our troops would be home already its for profit and gain in the oil companies.

I am thankful that we have these journalists, they are allowing the rest of the world to see the inhumanity, not just in Iraq but throughout the world. They are giving us a view that we wouldn't see otherwise.

This is the unfortunate results of governments stubborn behavior and unwilliness to share with it's people and they the simple people are always living in fear  and suffer as a result of this selfishness;for example taking food from any U.S. militzry personnel who will gladly give it with no reprecussions or expectations for doing do just returning kindness and compassion for mankind the country has always been in turmoil and will continue its a civil war between cultures thats how I see it and I reside as an American in an Arabic community waiting for my husband's visa its been really difficult especially through the eyes of children as they are told that i am representing the "killer Americans" this is how it is here and i feel so sorry for these people because i know how they suffer finally everyone is suffering not just the people of Iraq but Americans to carole spanawat wa

I understand that the people in Iraq are going through tough times, like all wars. Wars are not easy, people suffered in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the opression of Koreans under Japan and many other such wars. Out of conflicts we should grow closer and help each other. Where did we get this society if it doesn't hurt me, I don't care but I'll put my two cents in and it better count? I'm not over there in Iraq, but I bet there are some, maybe we don't hear about this much, are pulling together trying to make Iraq better. For those who want us to pull out when things are tough,- Maybe we should have turned our backs on Europe and said its not our War, too bad things are tough. Are you of this mind, I don't want to die for you, there is no benefit? Many people bite the hands that feed them,its when they are gone they have regrets. So in all, help the civilians even if you don't think they want you there. Give a fair and balance real jounalist report but remember our troops lives are on the line. War is war, if you are in the mist of it remember its not your home.

I feel very bad for the innocent people over there,I to wish this conflict would get over,I don't see na end any time soon,Nd how to help? How would we know that the people who really needed the help would get it.

Those people can't make up their minds whether they want us there or not, maybe we shouldn't be there? Let them have their civil war, and I think eventually they'll clean up their own streets. I don't think being there is gonna keep their country safe, or our own for that matter, but that's my opinion.

If someone would set up a legitimate distribution mechanism for aid to the starving, just as in Darfur, people around the world would respond with donations. I just don't believe we trust the aid will get to the needy. America has been wasting human and political capital in the middle east for years. We need to be more a part of the solution, the average guy on the street in the middle east was not our enemy. Now he is.

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