This has been making the email rounds:

The text reads:

Air Force Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad, Iraq, cradles a young girl as they both sleep in the hospital. The girl’s entire family was executed by insurgents; the killers shot her in the head as well. The girl received treatment at the U.S. military hospital in Balad, but cries and moans often. According to nurses at the facility, Gebhardt is the only one who can calm down the girl, so he has spent the last several nights holding her while they both sleep in a chair.

My buddy Bart notes that the email forward this is attached to wonders why the death of this poor child’s family hasn’t been reported much in the media.  The answer to that is, of course, “Because our troops didn’t kill them.”

It’s a sad but true fact of this war.  The only time atrocities or tragedies in Iraq get reported is if their the result of a mistake by our troops.  Or some misdeeds done by the few, isolated bad apples who make it into our military ranks.