"As a parent, they did not ring true with me"

Food and water aren't high priorities for you when you raise kids?

Maybe you need a little reality check.

Now let me see Lox you live where??

Certainly nowhere where your children, or taking what you say at face value, your daughter, live is she going to be deprived of food and water - so please stop the meaningless emotive crap - It is you who need the reality check - get back to me when your daughter has completed her second degree and is doing the job she always wanted to do - I in those respects have passed the test of parenthood.

You, according to your own principles, with your daughter in a van in Baghdad on the 12th July 2007 would have suceeded in getting both you and your daughter killed. I on the other hand would have made sure all my children were safe, primarly because that is my job and my primary responsibilty as a parent - TRUE??