[Pics] Americans Kill Babies!! - Iraq War protests in South Africa

	Americans Kill Babies!! [This is one of the old but important stories from the original AfricanCrisis website that I am converting on to the new site, in the new format. I did this photo story at the time of the Iraq war. Jan] More evidence of our anti-American stance came when the South African broadcasting commission said it was going to cancel our contract with CNN and instead switch to Al Jazeera, which is an Arab news service. It caused a massive public outcry, and then they dropped the plans. But, nevertheless, we now have a permanent correspondent in Baghdad. We often get direct news reports from there which are no doubt, subtle propaganda intended to turn us against you Americans. They show us their daily life, and how they are suffering, and how, when you folks attack them and bomb them, you will be destroying their lives. Nobody mentions the 1,600 death row prisoners Saddam used for his chemical and biological experiments. Nobody mentions his aggression, etc. Instead, we are told to feel sorry for all these innocent civilians whom you Americans are going to kill. Then they did a story, which really smacked of propaganda. It was about all the children and babies in hospitals in Iraq, and how there was no place to put them once the casualties from the American attacks were streaming in. They were saying there was such limited hospital space and they might have to throw the babies out, or maybe they might just not have space for the dead and dying as America was attacking them. I listened to this, and remarked that this is definitely propaganda, aimed now at portraying Americans as baby killers. The next day was a rare rainy day in Johannesburg. As I was going to work, I spotted a small protest in the middle of Johannesburg, across from the Library. I saw signs attacking Bush and Blair, and saw a group of little tiny tots, lined up by a black lady, and carrying banners which read, "Stop the war in Iraq". There were Police watching over this protest in the rain, and I saw a few journalists taking photographs. Strangely, the protest never made the TV news nor the local newspapers. But clearly, somebody, somewhere was going to put out this story. I parked my car quickly, and grabbed an old camera I keep in the car, and took some photos of this anti-American protest. In South Africa, anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiment run together. Those who support Palestine also support Iraq and they also hate America. The little black children were made to march and chant "We want peace! We want peace!" and their signs had a strong message - likening them to the children who would be killed in Iraq.
	Here are mothers protesting against the USA.
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	But it was this little procession by these tiny tots which really caught my eye. Note the banners they are carrying. There are close-ups of the banners in images below. As these little children were walking they were chanting "We want Peace! We want Peace!"
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	Here is a close-up of the banner held up by the mothers. Note the comment "You will walk in the blood of children".
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	Here in South Africa, support for the Palestinians and for Iraq is really one and the same issue. It goes with the general anti-Israeli attitude here. Note the lie 'No Oil for Children's blood'.
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	Here are close-ups of some of the banners…
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	Black South Africans are generally pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli
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	More… Iraq and Palestine… there are lots of Muslims in South Africa too…
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	Whose next? South Africa? Believe it or not, but the Secretary General of the African National Congress said that South Africa would be next!! There was a lot of talk in the South African media that our government is anti-American. Then President Mbeki had to jump in and do some belated damage control to say that their statements had been incorrectly "interpreted". Funny eh? Suddenly, english is a difficult language to understand. The South African government is unquestionably anti-American, but they just don't have the balls to say it openly.
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	You might say that I am cruel and unfeeling, not to "care" for the Iraqi children, but that is life. It is not me, nor you who chose the path of Iraq. It is the Iraqis, and one should remember the chemical weapons Saddam used against the Kurds - against the women and children - and his wars on Iran and Kuwait, and his threats to bury Israel and kill Israelis by the million as if they are dogs. Such is the nature of life. Saddam, and those people chose their path through life. It is sad that mothers, and children will die, but there too, they chose that. They could do something to take the women and children to safety as real men have done through the ages, and they could have done much to save lives, but it is the choice of their leader, to put human shields, and civilians in and around the soldiers in the hope that they will die so that they can then blame the bloodshed on the USA. These are their choices. I feel sorry for the innocents who will die, but nothing can be done. There is a greater cause, and that cause is for Saddam and his trouble-making creeps to go. They killed many when they had the chance to, and we should not feel sorry for them now that the hunters have become the hunted. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. That was their choice and they will have to answer to God for their choices.

Posted By: Jan
AfricanCrisis Webmaster
Author of: Government by Deception

Date Posted: Monday 15-Feb-2010
Seems like the entire world forgot about Saddam Hussein invading KUWAIT ?!? as I recall iraqi soldiers killed people in hospitals including stabbing 9 months pregnant women in the gut with swords and bayonettes. Kuwait had no military defense. Yes Saddam also hated kurds and killed them with mustard gas, not just prisoners, entire villages - and just recently I saw a documentary on how Saddam Hussein mounted the largest water engineering feet ever in the world, simply to drain out water from a reed filled swampish area that had people living it that he hated - he literally re-directed an entire river, built dams and turned this area (which was at least 1/10th of the entire nation) from a lush waterway filled with people an wildlife, into a desert. A doctor who is trying to re-hab the marshland said saddem used water as a weapon of mass destruction and no one even talks about it.

Finally let's face it - any normal country in the WORLD when having their dictator toppled would have just held elections and gotten on with their lives. Only crazy muslims would drag out this crap TURNING it into a war. As I recall, we did not go there to start a war with IRAQ only to get rid of the dictator. It was the decision of the nutballs living there to fight us, each other, genocide against christians, sunnis against shiites, etc. etc. they are lunatics and if they had been normal human beings NONE of this would have happened. They are tribal mentality backwards inbred people (quite frankly almost no difference between the way the act on a daily basis and any african tribe)

Rebecca s.
memphis
usa