More Proof We ARE Winning

Hey folks,

Here is just more proof that we are winning in the war against terror. What is the Proof? The Mass Media Drones are having a harder and harder time printing the negatives in Iraq and Afghanistan. It use to be "X amount of US soldiers killed today" "Roadside bombings kill x amount of people." "This and that Negative." "We are losing the war." "We Can’t win" ETC. Today?

USA Today -Trauma severe for Iraqi children, by James Palmer

BAGHDAD — About 70% of primary school students in a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health.

The survey of about 2,500 youngsters is the most comprehensive look at how the war is affecting Iraqi children, said Iraq's national mental health adviser and author of the study, Mohammed Al-Aboudi.

"The fighting is happening in the streets in front of our houses and schools," al-Aboudi said. "This is very difficult for the children to adapt to."

The study is to be released next month. Al-Aboudi discussed the findings with USA TODAY.

There is a war going on. As in any war, people are traumatize. ANYWHERE a war is being fought. Yes war is bad. Yes it is bad for kids to see people dying. He goes on to paint a grim picture for you. To show you how bad it is. Then he tells you that this study was done by teachers asking questions?

Many Iraqi children have to pass dead bodies on the street as they walk to school in the morning, according to a separate report last week by the International Red Cross. Others have seen relatives killed or have been injured in mortar or bomb attacks.

Some of these children are suffering one trauma after another, and it's severely damaging their development," said Said Al-Hashimi, a psychiatrist who teaches at Mustansiriya Medical School and runs a private clinic in west Baghdad. "We're not certain what will become of the next generation, even if there is peace one day," Al-Hashimi said.

The study was conducted last October in the Sha'ab district of northern Baghdad. The low- to middle-income neighborhood is inhabited by a mix of Shiites and Sunni Arabs. Al-Aboudi said he believes the sample was broadly representative of conditions throughout the capital.

In the study, schoolteachers were asked to determine whether randomly selected students showed any of 10 symptoms identified by the World Health Organization as signs of trauma. Other symptoms included voluntary muteness, declining performance in school or an increase in aggressive behavior.

The teachers received training from Iraqi psychologists on how to identify and help students cope with trauma-related stress, al-Aboudi said.

I’m not really going to attack this guy, nor am I really going to attack the way the study was done. I could. This was not a scientific study in any way, but it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that war is traumatic.

Then you have this from Reuters -Afghan rebels targeting civilians: rights group, by Terry Friel

As the bloodshed in Afghanistan worsens, the Taliban are increasingly targeting civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday.

The group accuses the Taliban and other insurgents of war crimes in its latest report, "The Human Cost."

"Suicide bombings and other insurgent attacks have risen dramatically since 2005, with almost 700 civilians dying last year at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgent groups," Human Rights Watch terrorism and counter-terrorism director Joanne Mariner said in a statement.

"The insurgents are increasingly committing war crimes, often by directly targeting civilians. Even when they're aiming at military targets, insurgent attacks are often so indiscriminate that Afghan civilians end up as the main victims."

Do you see what I’m talking about. This story by Reuters is still telling you how terrible we are doing. How bad it is over there. They want you to think that if the violence in INCREASING, then we must be losing. NOT true.

If I was fighting a war. I kill ten people a day. Mostly the enemy. All of a sudden, that enemy grows stronger and stronger. I can no longer really effect the enemy. So I start targeting that of lease resistance. Civilians. Now I can kill a lot more of them. Reports will show an "increase"in violence. Then if I come across the enemy, I just do blanket attacks out of desperation. This does NOT mean I am winning. It means I’m desperate, and losing.

The MMD are having a harder and harder time avoiding the positives coming out of th war, and a harder and hard time finding the negatives. Notice how they do not report about Bagdad? Good for us, BAD for them, and those who tell them what to write. So when you see stories like these, just keep in mind, this is a GOOD sign.
Peter


Sources:

USA Today -Trauma severe for Iraqi children
Reuters -Afghan rebels targeting civilians: rights group