"But Filkins reported that males determined to be ??of combat age,? which in this case was established as 12 and up, were barred from leaving, and sent back into the city to await their fate. Young boys were ripped from their screaming mothers and sent trudging back to the city to face death."

Bullshit! The head of Al-Quada Iraq actually escaped from there during the evacuation and I'm sure he didn't look younger than 12. I just love the left wing spin from some of these so called journalists.

Have a good one!:s4:
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . Bush's War on Children in Iraq By DAVE LINDORFF Surely nothing that President Bush has done in his two wretched terms of office??not the invasion and destruction of Iraq, not the overturning of the five-centuries-old tradition of habeas corpus, not his authorization and encouragement of torture, not his campaign of domestic spying??nothing, can compare in its ugliness as his approval, as commander in chief, of the imprisoning of over 2500 children. According to the US government??s own figures, that is how many Rating: 5