BY JAMES TARANTO
Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:16 p.m. EST
One Man's 'Terrorizing'
Earlier this month, as we noted(http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21987504), John Kerry* accused U.S. servicemen of "going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children." We guess this report from CNN is an example of what he means:
When troops from the Georgia National Guard raided a Baghdad home in early December, they had no idea that their mission in Iraq would take a different turn.
As the young parents of an infant girl nervously watched the soldiers search their modest home, the baby's unflinching grandmother thrust the little girl at the Americans, showing them the purple pouch protruding from her back.
Little Noor, barely three months old, was born with spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spinal column fails to completely close. Iraqi doctors had told her parents she would live only 45 days.
But she was tenaciously clinging to life, and the soldiers in the home--many of them fathers themselves--were moved.
"Well, I saw this child as the firstborn child of the young mother and father and really, all I could think of was my five children back at home and my young daughter," Lt. Jeff Morgan told CNN from Baghdad. . . . So Morgan and his fellow soldiers began working to get Noor the help she needs.
Doctors at a U.S. military base examined Noor. Georgia's Sen. Saxby Chambliss worked to speed the visa process, and an Atlanta physician, Roger Hudgins, has promised to operate free. Lifeover Ministries (http://www.lifeover.org/world.htm) reports that the girl they call "Baby Nora" and her grandmother "have airline reservations to arrive in the US." The link includes information on where to send donations to help with medical and personal expenses. Act by Saturday and you can claim a deduction on this year's taxes.
Maybe John Kerry could write a check as a small gesture of apology to the American servicemen he has slandered over the past 35 years.
* The haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way claimed that U.S. servicemen "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned on the power, cut off limbs, [blew] up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside" in Vietnam.
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