December 04, 2003
Baghdad Journal: Toys for Iraqi Tots
Full Story @ FOXNews.com
The dictator's priorities were clearly not focused on children. The schools are dilapidated and ill-equipped.
A U.S. Army officer who calls himself "Chief Wiggles" is doing his part to change all that.
Chief Warrant Officer Paul Holton, from Salt Lake City (search), Utah, is an army interrogator based in Baghdad.
One day he saw a crying child on the other side of the razor-wire fence separating the American enclave from the rest of the city. He helped reunite the child with her mother, and calmed her down by giving her a stuffed animal.
That small gesture has grown into a major effort to help the children of Iraq.
"I knew the way to touch the Iraqi people was through the children," says Holton.
As an interrogator, he says, "a big part of my job is connecting with the Iraqi people so that we build a relationship, build trust. A big part of that is reaching out to them, and a lot of times that is through their families, through the children. That way, we're able to build a connection and change attitudes about America."
*Muddy's Note* I lost it when I read this line, "As an interrogator, he says, "a big part of my job is connecting with the Iraqi people". I had to post this, it was too funny. That line goes together about as well as "As a sniper a big part of my job is to reach out to those around me." hahaha
But remember muddy, we're only there to kill and terrorize the population to provide money to the friends of an evil dictator.
Posted by: skywalker at December 5, 2003 02:25 PMRight, and when the camera's stop rolling we will yank those toys out of the iragi kids hands so fast it will make your head spin.
Posted by: cwilli at December 5, 2003 06:07 PMi think an interresting statistic would be to compare the number of toys distributed to the number of children dead.
Posted by: bennyhill1978 at December 5, 2003 09:16 PMSure "benny" go ahead and do just that...if that's the sick way you get your jollies. As for me, I'm just glad that these people are trying to go out of their way to even ATTEMPT to bring a smile to these childrens faces.
God knows they probably haven't done much smiling in the past with Sadam.
Benny: that's prety morbid and sick not to mention that there would be more toys than dead children. No, an interesting statistic would be the obscene number of children Saddam's government has killed versus the ones we are giving toys to.
Posted by: skywalker at December 7, 2003 01:37 PMhere is another one- people that lived in fear for their lives and human rights under Saddam- to those who are free and unopressed now. A soldier giving out toys is nothing more than human compasion- to make it anything else is stupid, benny.
Posted by: Kevin at December 8, 2003 07:52 PM