All children are beautiful. We just have to free them from satan's grip. That's our job.
The smile of a small child at a total stranger is as strong proof of the Almighty as anything. When you smile at a baby or toddler and they smile back, they aren't thinking about how they are smiling back at you, they are feeling your warmth and affection and returning it in reflexive appreciation.
It's when kids are taught to be "cool" and aloof that the smiles disappear, replaced by blank stares or scowls. Thank goodness these Iraqi kids aren't cool enough to project attitude at the camera; they might have looked like those unfortunate Palestinian kids trained to be suicide bombers.
But John Murtha says the troops should go to.....Okinawa. Not sure why.