I don’t recall that they were physically abused, but they were neglected. The kitchen was full of food, which the workers cooked for themselves. They didn’t feed the kids. I think they captured one or two, but the others fled.
It was heartbreaking. They also showed more pictures taken just days later after they had fed the children. They looked much better. It was a good, positive piece about our military.
I wonder what a Lefty who is screaming that we need to go into Darfur would say about this.
Watched CNN (International) and they covered this story, but they made it another pro-Saddam propaganda piece, fawning how much better life for orphanes was under Saddam.
It wasn’t about the caring US and Iraqi soldiers who saved the kids, at all.