Salee...

It's amazing that people still "glorify" the war we started in Iraq. Yes there are some high times where our soldiers are walking and playing with the kids around Iraq, but for the majority of people who live in this hell hole, it's not a happy time.

From the website where this video is posted:

"In this video you'll learn first hand what happened to Salee and her family, about the November day when a US missile took Salee's legs and killed her brother and one of her best friends.

The failure of the media to tell stories such as Salee's has deprived the American people of the ability make informed judgments about US foreign policy. The rest of the world, and particularly people in the Middle East, see these stories every day on the evening news. The information deficit in the United States has had disastrous consequences. Democracy cannot function when citizens don't know what's happening.

But there is reason to hope. A progressive Christian community in South Carolina learned about Salee and made a commitment to help her. Similar projects could generalize in the U.S., and communities all over the country could mobilize to help war-injured Iraqi children.

Despite the failure of the media to cover the human side of the war in Iraq, nearly two thirds of the American people oppose it. If stories like Salee's were being covered with anything like the attention they deserve, remaining support for the war would evaporate."

One of the reasons that our president says we are doing in Iraq is to spread democracy. Watch the video below and see what we are truly spreading. At what cost do we have to "win" this war? How many kids needs to lose their lives, limbs, families for us to call this fiasco a success?

July 23rd Salee Story