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Some of the first real pictures I have seen of the Iraq war, 2 1/2 years into the conflict, from an American news source.
posted by Strikethru at
8:12 PM
posted by Strikethru at
8:12 PM
3 Comments:
Why don't you show pictures of all the people who were tortured by Saddam Hussein, or the mass graves his regime created? You Bush-hating liberals never talk about all the good things our soldiers are doing in Iraq, like building schools and giving women the right to vote. Criticizing the war only gives comfort and support to the enemy, and puts our soldiers in greater danger. You must really want the terrorists to win, you hate America, blah blah blah...
Signed, average patriotic war-supporting American
Perhaps if you'd signed it "average knee-jerk reactionary" this would make more sense. I'm not sure where you get "gives comfort and support to the enemy" from; Seems like the last thing they need or care about is our support or comfort (perhaps our enemies would like to chime in here). Saddam Hussein's mass graves weren't the reasons we were given for this war. At any rate, I think the point here is to illustrate that we're kind of stuck in an untenable position, and to suggest that we take a moment an ponder the real human cost of the situation. I suppose it's easy to hide behind platitudes and vow to support our troops, but I think that ignores the utter waste that this operation really is. Perhaps a reminder such as this is in order.
One sentence, some pictures, and somehow you are labelled as a Bush-hater, enemy-sympathizer, anti-war, non-American. I don't get it.
The one thing that real pictures do for me is make the war real. George Bush, like all war-time leaders, doesn't have faceless troops like in some board game--He has sons and daughters, who had their own families and lives and dreams, all of which they choose to sacrifice in order to serve the country.
These pictures remind me to spend more time fervently praying for their safe return.
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