Fallujah

[kera]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6010.htm

[VolcanoJen]

1. Warning Sensitive Readers: Disturbing Photographs

This really isn't LBN material, but for the curious, please know that the link posted above leads to graphic and disturbing photographs of children killed in Iraq; the link is dated 4-7-04.

[DrWeird]

2. Please repost in GD.

And put "graphic photos" for the people who would rather keep their head in the sand.

[VolcanoJen]

3. I'm not a sensitive-type, but choosing not to view photographs...

... of dead children does not automatically mean that one's head is in the proverbial sand.

I would have viewed those photographs either way, but those who choose not to can still hate this war as much as anyone else does.

[DrWeird]

4. Peoples tax dollars went towards killing those children.

The least they can do is look at the faces. We owe them that much.

[Name removed]

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[IndianaGreen]

11. They died because the "US fears genuinely free elections in Iraq."

The fact that British squaddies shot dead 15 Iraqis in Amara on Tuesday has had little more coverage than the shameful beating to death of Iraqi prisoners in British custody. Both the BBC and ITN routinely refer to British troops as "peacekeepers"; private mercenaries are called "civilian contractors"; the rebranding of the occupation planned for June is described as the "handover of power to the Iraqis"; the Sadr group always represents a "small minority" of Shia opinion; and a patently unscientific and contradictory poll carried out in Iraq last month - in which most people said they were opposed to the presence of coalition forces in Iraq - is absurdly used to claim majority support for the occupation.

The growing panic in Washington over what Senator Edward Kennedy calls "Bush's Vietnam" is now focused on the date for the formal - and entirely cosmetic - transfer of sovereignty to a hand-picked Iraqi puppet administration, currently timetabled for June 30. The original idea of an early date was to give the appearance of progress in Iraq before the US presidential elections. But there was also an anxiety that pressure for an elected transitional government would become unstoppable if the transfer took place any later - and like all occupying powers, the US fears genuinely free elections in Iraq. In any case, according to existing plans, the US will maintain full effective control - of security, oil, economic policy, major contracts - under a rigged interim constitution whenever the formal "transfer" takes place.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1188142,00.html

[VolcanoJen]

12. Tinoire, I agree with you, you know I do...

... and my point was lost. I'm frustrated, especially by the obvious media blackout of what the fuck is really happening over there.

nostamj's thread in GD is a better place to discuss this, I think:

Fallujah - Dead Babies - No Jokes - WARNING: Graphic Images

[Demonaut]

5. when are children collateral damage? When will CBS,ABC,CNN,ABC

or Fox show the other side of this war?

[anarchy1999]

6. This link and a post by a prominent DU'er has been up all day in GD.

Far more tasteful, but hardhitting, without the graphics, in a downhome kind of way. Really helps it hit home.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1362755&mesg_id=1362755

[lumpy]

7. Graphic evidence of the atrocity

of killing. If it were my dead babies lying there, after the weeping and angony I would have nothing but hate for the killers and an overwhelming desire for revenge. It is not too difficult to understand why Iraqis are out for US blood. Multiply those pictures by the thousands and weep for humanity.

[Aidoneus]

8. equally moving is the video footage from the same page

InformationClearinghouse has a link to a short al-Jazeera feed from earlier about this. It's in Arabic, but the message transmitted clearly crosses language barriers.

[Voltaire99]

10. Our tax dollars at work

I never wished to underwrite this. Did you?

[Moderator]

13. Locking

According to DU rules, graphic images must be clearly labeled. Also, this is not LBN material.