The Face of Our War on Children: Shakira

Dear Mr. President,

The Scammer-in-Chief is at it again. The old bait-and-switch routine you’re mastered. Give a speech filled with liberal ideas and phrases and the liberals and anti-war activists fall all over themselves wanting to believe so bad they never notice that you do just the opposite. Take the much-ballyhooed health care program, Obamacare, the greatest accomplishment for the American people since Medicare and Social Security. Well, not quite. Now we learn that the IRS has interpreted the rules so that the poorer among us will not be subsidized by the government for the cost of insurance for their family after all, just for themselves. Bottom line—tens of millions of kids will continue to have no health coverage. As consolation, however, we’re assured these people won’t be subject to a penalty for not having health insurance. Obamacare, it turns out, is good for insurance companies, not so good for those who can’t afford insurance. Once again, it seems we’re waging war on children. We may not be firing Hellfire missiles at our own kids like we do those in other countries but we’re condemning them to a life of misery and poor health just like the kids in Pakistsan or Yemen or Somalia whose villages and families we terrorize and destroy. As always, the biggest impact is on the children. Some are killed outright like Tariq Aziz and Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi, who I wrote about yesterday, but others are maimed and scarred psychologically and physically. Take the case of Shakira. In 2009, when she was a year old, a CIA drone fired Hellfire missiles at her village in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Shakira’s family was killed and she was left for dead. A U.S. Aid doctor discovered her, along with 2 other baby girls, all severely wounded. The two others died, but Shakira received medical attention in time and survived. She’s horribly disfigured as a result of her burns and was flown to the U.S. for reconstructive surgery last year. A nice gesture from the country responsible for her injuries. Here’s a picture of her taken in December of 2011. She was 4 then. Take a good look, Mr. President. This is the face of your drone wars, the disfigured reality and horror of them. There is no reflection of heroism, honor or glory here, only the reflection of savagery, injustice and inhumanity to man. I hope it burns deep into your conscience. This is the face of our War on Children. (http://redwishdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/shakira-drone-attack-victim.jpg?w=750)

Shakira, Age 4, Wounded by a U.S. drone attack in the Swat Valley of Pakistan