Saudi paper concerned Iraqi weapons experts will be pushed to leave country

"Al-Riyadh newspaper raised a question about the fates of the Iraqi human resources and the prospects of the brain drain of the talented Iraqi people.After the silence of the guns, there will be a problem of the human resources inside and outside Iraq. Are they going to be kept for Iraq or will they be incited to emigrate to America, Britain and other countries in order to continue the sanction over this country and prevent it from growing in a way that might threat Israel which is planning along with America to dry out the springheads of the highly professional Iraqi people with any means," the paper said."

What about them running off to Pakistan, Iran or some Russian Mafia boss to be auctioned off to the highest bidder?

Below is a different story. I hope the reasons we started this war can somehow justify what's happened to this little boy. His life ruined, for ever.

Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, who says he was wounded during an airstrike, lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad, on April 6, 2003. Abbas was fast asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms

U.S. media show carnage with a soft-focus lens
During an era when popular culture is filled with depictions of violence and death, the images that many Americans are seeing are remarkably bloodless.

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