After viewing this (graphic and rage-inducing), I had to get up and walk away from the computer for a bit.
One look at this GI's face will give you an idea of what U.S. and Iraqi soldiers found--almost by accident--in a Baghdad orphanage on June 10, 2007.
On a daytime patrol in central Baghdad just over than a week ago, a U.S. military advisory team and Iraqi soldiers happened to look over a wall and found something horrific. [SNIP]
Inside the building, a government-run orphanage for special needs children, the soldiers found more emaciated little bodies tied to the cribs. They had been kept this way for more than a month, according to the soldiers called in to rescue the 24 boys.
"I saw children that you could see literally every bone in their body that were so skinny, they had no energy to move whatsoever, no expression on their face," Staff Sgt. Michael Beale said.
"The kids were tied up, naked, covered in their own waste — feces — and there were three people that were cooking themselves food, but nothing for the kids," Lt. Stephen Duperre said. [SNIP]
[...]The soldiers found kitchen shelves packed with food and in the stockroom, rows of brand-new clothing still in their plastic wrapping.
Instead of giving it to the boys, the soldiers believe it was being sold to local markets.
The man in charge, the orphanage caretaker, had a well-kept office — a stark contrast to the terrible conditions just outside that room.Whether the boys are actual orphans or not is anyone's guess.
Every time that a group of human beings does something evil, it seems that another group looks on and feels the perverse need to go one better.
(Photo by CBS)
