Tells you a lot about their culture.

No one complained when Bush did it.

Good lord, can that kid even lift that weapon?? bobby stickers - what are you talking about? I'm not a huge Bush fan but people really seem to force-fit Bush slams into every possible story on this site, no matter how far they have to reach for it. It's getting very, very old. Maybe that was somehow a legitimate remark but if so I'm pretty clueless about what you're referencing.

In the last days of WW-II, Adolf Hitler sent the Hitler Youth out to delay advancing Soviet tanks while he and his concubine holed up in a bunker and committed suicide. Tyrants will always send children out to cover their own cowardice.

Oh great, so now our soldiers have to shoot kids to defend themselves? I suppose the Iraq government will then be talking about how Americans are "murdering" children. Yeah.....right!!!!!

Great parents in Iraq. Really great.

jpwagco Sep 24, 2007 4:57:47 PM - Take your time and watch the documentary named "Jesus Camp."

Really sad to see 8 year olds with AK 47's instead of G.I. joe's action figures :(

I'm confident that illegally wiretapping American's phones will play a big role in solving this problem.

This is so sad -so inevitable.
Please do not make this a story that develops into a cause or reason to kill children.

That's what a trillion dollars spent on the Iraq war is getting us. A new generation of terrorists.

As if we didn't already see this ploy by North Vietnam 30 odd years ago...I hardly find this amazing or shocking....hasn't anyone paying attention to anything?

Like father like son. Bush snr. turned the previous generation of Mujaheddin into Al Qaeda and Taliban. What will this present generation of Mujaheddin turn into in time ? You can thank the dimwit republican sheep for ruining this nation and sowing the seeds of future wars.

How terrible they are using children. And the children have no say so in objecting to being used this way.

bobby stickers - when did Bush ever send children to war?

The Muslim extremists know exactly what the western world will not stand for, killing children, so now they are recruiting children to take advantage of that western mentality. The U.S. and the coalition troops will not be shown killing children even if those children are trying to kill them. Using these same children as suicide bombers would seem far more effective useful than teaching them how to maintain, load, and shot AK-47s. What a pitiful culture and religion Muslim and Islam is.

We had the same thing 30 odd years ago with North Vietnam...this isn't shocking.

these kids should hang out with the kids at the jesus camps.

Remember when the Iranians used children in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s? Muslim extremism is a culture of depraved barbarism. Bear in mind that I am against our involvement in Iraq and nearly everything that the Bush Repubs stand for. But we cannot idly sit by and tolerate this form of child abuse.

not surprising

In America, this would be like parents or adults making 3rd or 4th graders kill and use weapons like AK-47s. We did build schools over there didn't we? We need to have those kids in school learning how to improve their country in the future, instead of learning how to shoot and kill people. Plus, I don't think this will work. When these kids go into a battle they will see blood, and death, and they won't want to fight. They're only 11-12 years old, and I don't think they will be able to handle war.