How low can they get?


BAGHDAD Feb 1, 2008 (AP)
Share Remote-controlled explosives strapped to two mentally retarded women detonated in a coordinated attack on Baghdad pet bazaars Friday, Iraqi officials said, killing at least 73 people in the deadliest day since the U.S. sent 30,000 extra troops to the capital last spring.

The chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, said the female bombers had Down syndrome and that the explosives were detonated by remote control indicating they may not having been willing attackers in what could be a new method by suspected Sunni insurgents to subvert stepped up security measures

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And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale


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I'm curious about the public reaction there.

Not only that, but the bombs were remotely detonated. Those women never knew what was going on. Absolutely evil.

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Don't hold your breath on the moral indignance. People will try to ignore it happened and forget in a couple of weeks. Just like the Beslan school massacre.

This one hit me square in the gut. Perhaps it's because I work with children with Down Syndrome every day.

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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams

Of course, they are excellent deniers of reality. The whole culture is based on it.