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06 Oct 03 - 02:00 PM (#1030687) Subject: BS: Operation Give - Toys for Iraqi Children From: GUEST From the website of Operation Give: Operation Give was founded as a not-for-profit corporation in answer to a call from a soldier stationed in Iraq, known affectionately as Chief Wiggles. His request? To send toys and other goods to help the children he encountered every day in Iraq. Operation Give is grass-roots, non-partisan, volunteer-driven, and non-political. All we want to do is help children of Iraq in their recovery from years of depredation, and make the world a better place. This seems like a good idea. |
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06 Oct 03 - 08:36 PM (#1030927) Subject: RE: BS: Operation Give - Toys for Iraqi Children From: Alice Thanks for the link, Guest. Alice |
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06 Oct 03 - 08:50 PM (#1030934) Subject: RE: BS: Operation Give - Toys for Iraqi Children From: LadyJean It's a fine idea. But, please be sure the stuff sent is actually getting there! Check my posting on the U.S. Bans Religious Mail thread. Things are not going very efficiently in Iraq. |
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07 Oct 03 - 12:31 AM (#1031030) Subject: RE: BS: Operation Give - Toys for Iraqi Children From: GUEST,pdc If you check the link, it tells not only what to send, but how to send it as well. I don't know if everything is supposed to be new or not, but I'm collecting some of my children's leftover toys that look as good as new. Make sure you don't send any electrical toys, btw. |
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07 Oct 03 - 05:39 AM (#1031100) Subject: RE: BS: Operation Give - Toys for Iraqi Children From: Scabby Douglas I respect the impulse that can make people respond to a humanitarian appeal of this nature. I would suggest that all those who are inclined to do so think very carefully. A young Iraqi boy named Ali, lost all his immediate family during the Allied air attacks upon Iraq. He also lost both arms. Following a great deal of press coverage, TV and so on, he was evacuated first of all to (I think) Kuwait, and ultimately to the UK where he has been fitted with prosthetic limbs. While he was in hospital in Kuwait, he was the object of much media coverage - to the extent that he received gifts and toys from all over the world. The TV news story that outraged me the most was that he was so pleased to receive a wonderful gift - a Sony Playstation. A Playstation - for a boy with no hands. Truly inspired. What genius thought that one up? "I want to be able to drive a car, God willing," he said. His uncle also said "He just wants to be a normal boy, God williing". This song came out of that. I know it's rather harsh, but I was, and still am, angry... Give Him Time - Steven Clark There's a boy out playing on a street Could be yours, God help us, could be mine having too much fun to come inside and eat. Give him time, God willing, give him time The boy has dreams he doesn't like to tell Could be yours, God help us, could be mine He'll be a doctor and he'll make the sick folk well Give him time, God willing, give him time Came the missiles, came the aeroplanes Could be yours, God help us, could be mine And hidden hands unleashed a fiery rain Give him time, God willing, give him time The boy is lying, on a hospital bed Could be yours, God help us, could be mine The doctor says that he'd be better dead Give him time, God willing, give him time Across the world, he's on the TV screens Could be yours, God help us, could be mine Folk send him gifts and money to wipe their conscience clean Give him time, God willing, give him time The boy has toys and games he just can't wait to play Could be yours, God help us, could be mine It's so much harder since we burned his arms away Give him time, God willing, give him time So when they call for war to end a tyrant's reign Could be yours, God help us, could be mine Ask yourself the reason and what they stand to gain Give him time, God willing, give him time There's a boy patrolling down a street Could be yours, God help us, could be mine He wonders how you tell a victory from defeat Give him time, God willing, give him time All the best Steven |