Photo of the Year, the travesty and horror that bush created in Iraq..

[radwriter0555]

This breaks my heart.

[Jack_Dawson]

1. What's that hat he's wearing?

[nostamj]

2. not a hat!

good god, that's one of the bags they put over detainee's heads

[tom_paine]

3. We now bag the heads of our prisoners, it seems

Even if it is a practice which yields some benefits, it certainly LOOKS barbaric.

Even though Imperial Amerika no longer acknowledges it, I wonder if this violates the Geneva Conevntion?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

7. Imagine a black bag over your head in the 110 degree sun. Torture. n/t

[KansDem]

11. ...whild comfronting your injured child.

Or worse, dying child.

Or saying "goodbye" to a dead child.

on edit: sorry, this picture hit me hard. We just celebrated my daughter's 12th birthday last week, and our son's 6th birthday last month.

[mrgorth]

19. You mean...

they LOVE their children? Impossible. The enemies of america only breed suicide bombers...right?

[nostamj]

9. "the Geneva Conevntion" ???

bushco* signed out of that during the Afghanistan war... where you been? :shrug:

[tom_paine]

4. Sorry, dupe post

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[Scurrilous]

6. It's a 'freedom hat'....

...wear it long enough while sitting out in the sun and your brains become 'freedom fried.'

[JohnOneillsMemory]

5. Agreed. I wept for hours the day that came out. I am now. n/t

[DemoTex]

8. Photo of the Year

World Press Photo of the year 2003 by French photographer Jean-Marc Bouju of the Associated Press shows a detained Iraqi man comforting his 4-year-old-son at a regroupment center for POW's near Najaf, Iraq. Picture was taken on 31 March, 2003.

[truth2power]

12. Regroupment center?????

:wtf:

Can someone please explain to me--again--the alleged purpose for bagging the heads of prisoners?

I most recently saw this, I think it was on Frontline a couple of days ago, that Baghdad documentary.

on edit> I'm surprised they didn't bag the child also. Monsters!! All of them!! I don't believe in a literal hell, but I'll make an exception in this case. Bushco should burn in hell for eternity.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. So that you can't identify them in the pictures

and so that they can't identify you at the war crimes trials.

[NJCher]

10. how I loathe this government

Please God let us get someone in as president who will restore humanity.


Cher

[DuctapeFatwa]

13. Sadly, that is not likely. All the candidates favor continuing the crusade

The Democrats with money feel that having other countries join the US in committing war crimes will be better, and the ones without money favor doing it on UN letterhead and having the crusaders wear blue hats.

There is quite a lot of money at stake, you see. Everybody wants their share of America's oil in Iraq.

[Jacobin]

14. Bastards

[snippy]

15. No wonder they have welcomed us with floral program related activities.

Do Bush and Rumsfeld know that we did not place a bag over the child's head? They are going to be pissed off about that.

We now are holding over 10,000 prisoners in Iraq, 300 of whom are prisoners of war.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s947282.htm

[DemoTex]

17. "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 8:7

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[swinney]

18. war photos and stories from Europe would kill anyone

During and after the "PNAC" slaughter many photos were on the internet from papers in Europe.

Station wagon approached a checkpoint and as it got there young, brave, well trained, mature, bright america soldiers started yelling stop. They had been waved through two checkpoints and when they did not stop immediately a slaughter took place.

11 in van. 7 killed. 4 children. woman screaming "I saw my girls heads shot off. I want to die."

The officer in charge yelled "You idiots you idiots you just killed a family". His response later was "They are just boys and paniced".

Just Boys??? Our well trained troops.

I counted 22 shell holes in the hood of the car. 22.

Marketplace in Baghdad. 61 die when a brave,highly trained, well educated. brave American pilot shoots a missile into a marketplace.

Aw shucks! I goofed.

Control Center views (satellite) rifles being fired into the air as a plane was flying overhead (20,000 feet). The brave, highly educated, heroic American Pilot fired a missile killing 7 of whom 4 were kids such as flower girls at the outdoor wedding.

20,000 ft up and AK-47 a danger.Target practice training?

Saddam empty palace and 7 (7) cruise missiles fired at it. Destroyed surrounding homes.

Guess who is trying to kill americans? The innocent man whose two sons were killed.

A 14 and 10 year old atop of home sleeping to avoid the heat.
Troops march by and 14 yr old looks over to see it. Brave, heroic, well trained, nerveless soldier, shot his head off. Go America?

Know who is trying to kill americans? Members of that family.

Go America. Wait till Russia aims 200 ICBM's from 7 stories underground loaded with many nuclear warheads and targeted at american cities. Then, a worry. PNAC wil save us.

Bush will pray for God to help and will save us.

We lose 2740 (not all citizens as 70 nations had offices in the twin towers) and kill --10,000-3,000-10,000 and 6,000.

Just a little old 29,000 innocent humans killed in reprisal.

God told Bush to go out and kill kill kill. Go Bush. God will take care of you.

What I saw and read would have turned America against Bush in a hurry.

Impeach would be the war cry today.