Do Unto Others…
As You would have them do unto you
by Charles Coughlin
Imagine a young man, who has a pregnant sister who suddenly goes into labor. He hops in his car with her and a female cousin and races for the hospital. Imagine the police have put up a road block to try to catch a bank robber. The man with the pregnant sister doesn’t want to wait in line for an hour. He passes up the parked cars on the shoulder of the road. He hopes the police will look into his car and see that he has a pregnant woman inside along with another female relative and let him pass. Instead the police open fire killing the pregnant woman, the unborn baby and the man’s female cousin. Americans would never stand for this sort of outrageous police behavior.
But this is exactly the sort of burden we have imposed on the civilians of Iraq. A recent news article reports: “U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday. Jassim, the mother of two children, and her 57-year-old cousin, Saliha Mohammed Hassan, were killed by the U.S. forces, according to police Capt. Laith Mohammed and witnesses. The U.S. military said coalition troops fired at a car… (which) failed to stop despite repeated visual and auditory warnings. Jassim’s brother, who was wounded by broken glass, said he did not see any warnings as he sped his sister to the hospital. Her husband was waiting for her there. ‘I was driving my car at full speed because I did not see any sign or warning from the Americans. It was not until they shot the two bullets that killed my sister and cousin that I stopped,’ he said. ‘God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives.’ He said doctors tried but failed to save the baby after his sister was brought to the hospital. The shooting deaths occurred in the wake of an investigation into allegations that U.S. Marines killed unarmed civilians in the western city of Haditha.” (more…)