"No,there's no end; the end is death and madness!"

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According to an Italian newspaper, American and Iraqi forces have identified an Iraqi doctor, head of a hospital for mental illness, as the man who supplied the terrorists with two Down's Syndrome victims who were then sent into the crowd at a pet market in Baghdad a week or so ago. Apparently this man gained his job because his predecessor, whose deputy he used to be, had refused to allow the terrorists to use his patients as human bombs, and had been murdered in consequence.

And there are those who say we ought to negotiate with these creatures.

Comments

[johncwright.livejournal.com]

My son is autistic. He is the most beautiful boy.

If I were an atheist, the thought would never cease to torment me that no proper, due, and proportionate justice would ever visit the killers who can imagine and do such horrid acts. Human beings do not have the power to visit endless pain on human beings, or, in this case on ex-human beings.

[headnoises.livejournal.com]

The folks I know with autism and Downs syndrome are amazingly *nice* folks-- innocent, even.

(isn't that kind of a major way of seeing of autism? They're just too unworldly/innocent?)

To be able to attack those...I'm not sure if it's more or less or just as bad as using a baby to hurt folks, honestly, I just know it's really, really bad.