There's no commercials for this child

I found this picture on a liberal blog site. It's an image of an Iraqi girl, who just moved in to a refuge camp after a recent bombing. I'm going to call her Amilia.

If ever there was an image that to me tells the story of what the Iraq war is doing to our world, for some reason, this is it.

Years back I "adopted" a child from one of those companies that asks you to send money to a child over sees. I admit it, the pictures of children picking through garbage looking for their next meal got to me. Every month I would send this girl a little bit of money. Her family was poor and didn't have so much as healthy water for the girl to drink. Giving her money gave her the ability to eat nutritious food, go to school, and have the plumbing inside her house that she needed to help her grow.

While I sent this money it never occurred to me that my own country could cause this kind of despair. I had sent it faithfully, knowing that my country was doing something to make this little girl's life better. How naive I was.

Now it is my country's fault that girls like "Amilia" won't be able to receive the correct things to help make her life better. It is my country's fault that her house has been destroyed. I don't know who threw the bomb that caused this girls house to come down and frankly, I don't care. I still blame our country.

I want so much for our troops to come home. But at the same time, when they leave, what will this child and her family do? How will they go on? There has to be some sort of middle ground between throwing bombs and helping children. If there isn't....then I guess we're all just doomed.

There are probably a thousand Amilia's in Iraq, and many of them are probably refugees now. I will pray for her and worship for her safety every night. And I will hope that the rest of our country will too.