Hugh Gibbons <party@my.house.com> wrote in news:party-
5CA194.20275828102005@news-fe-01.texas.rr.com:

This morning I heard on the radio details about the killing
of Manadel al-Jamadi by US Army and CIA agents in Iraq. The
report was detailed and included testimony of witnesses. My
11-year-old daughter was listening in the back seat.

I seriously considered turning the radio off when I heard the subject
of the report. Hearing about such a horrific event is a heavy
burden a girl her age. But it's also an age at which kids
have to start becoming aware, if they're not already, of serious
adult issues. Issues that make everybody uncomfortable. Like
war, crime and the unwholesome nexus of the two.

So she sat and listened to the account of al-Jamadi's capture,
brutal beating at the hands of U.S. soldiers, his torture and
death, and of CIA and Army personnel trying to shift the blame
off of themselves and onto each other.

Naturally,
as you can imagine, my daughter had a question.

"Why did they kill him?"

It would have been nice to have an answer for her that wasn't
a national disgrace.

What did you tell your daughter about the September 11, 2001 murders?