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Post by Jenifer on Feb 1, 2008 13:25:38 GMT -5
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Post by andrewsmom on Feb 1, 2008 15:11:26 GMT -5
I just read this story and couldn't stop my tears. That is just awful. I honestly don't understand how some people think. So sad.
-Trisha
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Post by Jessie on Feb 1, 2008 15:17:46 GMT -5
I was just going to post this story.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
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Post by Jackie on Feb 1, 2008 16:02:44 GMT -5
Me too...I am saddened and sickened by it.
Jackie
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Post by mommygwen on Feb 1, 2008 18:03:19 GMT -5
The evening news I just watched reported that both women had Down syndrome..
How can life be treated so cheaply?
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Post by Renee' on Feb 1, 2008 18:20:33 GMT -5
I hope they rot in hell for that.
My husband fought in Iraq and was wounded. Seeing things like this make me sick to my stomach. How could they treat such precious innocent people like this. It is just unthinkable.
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Post by katiesmom on Feb 1, 2008 18:37:09 GMT -5
It's just vile....and so, so sad.
Deane
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Post by Ericsmomma on Feb 1, 2008 21:23:48 GMT -5
there is a special place in hell for these kinds of monsters....inhuman.
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Post by Googsmom aka Jennifer on Feb 1, 2008 21:25:56 GMT -5
Horrible!! Just horrible!!! I saw it on the news but they didn't mention the ladies had DS. Why? is my question. Just WHY???
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Post by CC on Feb 1, 2008 21:58:05 GMT -5
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Post by twosomy21 on Feb 2, 2008 3:49:16 GMT -5
i saw that at work-this whole thing going on is scary-these people do not care about anybody
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Post by Jackie on Feb 2, 2008 10:10:15 GMT -5
I am sure most of you have read this from NDSS and NDSC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2008
CONTACT:
David Tolleson Jon Colman
National Down Syndrome Congress National Down Syndrome Society
770/604-9500 212/763-4371
The National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC) and the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) condemned the use of individuals with Down syndrome by terrorists following dual bombings in Baghdad Friday. According to news reports, terrorists used remote-controlled explosives attached to two women with Down syndrome to kill at least 73 people.
Responding to news of the attack, NDSC Executive Director David Tolleson said, “this tragedy is compounded by the terrorist’s vicious exploitation of individuals with Down syndrome.” NDSS President Jon Colman agreed, noting that “this was not a suicide attack, these women were murdered, as surely as the other victims.”
This is not the first time individuals with Down syndrome have been used by terrorists in such deadly attacks in Iraq. On January 31, 2005, an explosive device tied to a boy with Down syndrome was exploded in Baghdad, in an act condemned at the time by NDSC and NDSS and others around the world.
Both the National Down Syndrome Society and the National Down Syndrome Congress urge the Iraqi government to use every available method to end the abuse of individuals with Down syndrome and to use this tragedy as a catalyst to enact and uphold policies and laws that will protect the basic human and civil rights of all individuals with disabilities.
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Post by mollysmomma on Feb 2, 2008 18:48:38 GMT -5
no words
there are no words
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Post by Jackie on Feb 3, 2008 10:59:07 GMT -5
I don't know about the rest of you...but I am also enraged that there has not been more public outrage here in the USA about these bombings...the idea of using people with developmental disabilities as if their lives were considered even MORE worthless than the intended victims!
Jackie
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Post by Googsmom aka Jennifer on Feb 3, 2008 11:32:37 GMT -5
I agree Jackie!!!!! P*sssss" me off!!!
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