UNBELIEVABLE PHOTOS

[burpsalot]

[WindRavenX]

1. What's so unbelievable about them?

No doubt some Iraqis feel this way...the majority do not.

[Goldmund]

2. I guess if 100,000-200,000 of my compatriots got killed...

...I'd be thankful I'm alive too.

[NightTrain]

3. Can you say, "staged photo-ops?"

:eyes:

[MichiganVote]

4. These look dated. Are they from last year?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Yep, and the USSR never did anything wrong! Pravda said so! (nt)

[babylonsister]

6. Curious as to origin?

If this was the prevailing wisdom, don't you think the MNM would be celebrating? Oh, yeah, they are...

[juliagoolia]

7. These are really OLD

They are from the beginning before he messed up the whole middle east and got thousands upon thousands killed.


These folks have since changed their minds, and their hearts.

Read this

afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com

and links off that page

[ArthurDent]

8. Not everyone liked Saddam n/t

[Goldmund]

11. And those who didn't,

love Bush.

I guess, analogously to those who don't love Bush here, and therefore love Bin Laden.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. Right--- and he's gone now... So WHY ARE WE STILL THERE?

n/t

[thedailyshow]

9. and that's supposed to make up for a war torn country?

of over 1,200 dead US soldiers and 100,000 dead Iraqis?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Can you maybe give us your interpretation of the war?

Do you think it's worth 1200 dead Americans?
Do you think it's worth over 9,000 mortally wounded soldiers?
Do you think it's worth 100,000 dead Iraqis?

Please, we wait for your wisdom!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. I knew people there who felt that way at first

Sadly, times they have changed. The reality is now that we have shown are real reason for being there. It's not their freedom from oppression as they had hoped/prayed in the beginning.

In other words, I think those pic's are old.

[Stand and Fight]

13. Nonsense

Yeah, #4 in particular is really funny. She is holding up a sign professing her happiness, but the woman looks absolutely peeved to say the least. Yeah, she's just positively thrilled to have her home invaded...

Number 5 is no different -- explain this to me poster: how is it that these people are so able to write English? Not to mention the fact that it is just weird that they'd have such placards on them by chance. However, I do not believe that the other three are necessarily staged. I know for a fact that our soldiers -- I used to be one -- are handing out little gift bags like that. Nonetheless, the majority of the people there don't appreciate being "occupied". Heck, I wouldn't be happy if I was occupied either...

:crazy:

[baldguy]

14. Someone carring a gun tells you to hold up a sign.

Its in a language you can't read. They've given candy to the local kids. Are you gonna refuse?

[drdtroit]

15. Very dated photos.

These photo-ops occurred shortly after the beginning of the war, I remember seeing them.

Although I don't doubt the sincerity of the kids photos, this moment has past forever and been replaced by the living hell we have perpetrated upon them.

God bless their souls (and everyone else's).

[luaneryder]

16. Links?

[Placebo]

17. What makes them so 'unbelievable'?

:shrug:

[seabeyond]

42. this is the iraqi people when they still had hope

when they actually thought bush was thinking about them and not his own profit and big business profit

why unbelievable. people are afraid of u.s. soldiers now, they are afraid to leave home now. and i dont htink a single iraqi would hold up a sign saying they are happy living in the hell hole we created

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Staged photo ops indeed!

That last one, with the little boy holding up the "Thank you very much Mr. Bush" sign clinched it for me.

When the U.S. invaded Grenada, white painted grafitti appeared overnight all over the island saying "Thank you President Reagan. God bless America." Photographs of it were printed in U.S. newspapers and magazines.

When the U.S. invaded Panama, white painted grafitti appeared overnight all over the capital city saying, "Thank you President Bush. God bless America." Photographs of it were printed in U.S. newspapers and magazines, although few remembered, until I pointed it out, the similarity to the Grenada grafitti.

I heard a talk by a sociologist who had worked a lot in Grenada, and he said that his friends on the island told him that "white men in vans" had painted the grafitti during the night.

[Spiffarino]

19. Not at all unbelievable...

...because American soldiers, like Americans in general, tend to be kind and affectionate people.

It's a shame their leaders didn't share such traits and instead chose to go in without a plan to maintain order. I wonder how many of those beautiful people are still happy, still content with their lot, or even still alive.

What a difference a little planning might have made.

[pacalo]

20. Do you have anything CURRENT, like say, from Falluja?

[ogradda]

22. ouch

that's the shit i find unbelievable :(

[Sperk]

21. well, that settles it....mission accomplished, come on home boys!

n/t

[Kathy in Cambridge]

23. Looks like a 'post-and-run'!

:eyes:

something kinda smells in here all of the sudden...

[pinkpops]

26. Burpsalot burped and ran

[devinsgram]

24. I guess that makes up for Falluja.

Guess again.

[UdoKier]

25. Well those five pictures settle it. BUSH WAS RIGHT!

Thank GAWD our leader had the foresight to invade and annex Iraq, set up a US puppet government and depose Saddam, Sure, we've lost 1200 men, maimed 10,000 more killed at least 100,000 Iraqis, but if the 16 people in those photos were happy (mostly happy to get candy it would appear) then it was ALL WORTHWHILE!

What was I thinking, going to all those silly protests to try and prevent the momentary happiness of these 16 people!

Thank you, burpclot, for reminding us that the illegal US invasion of a sovereign nation is more than just mindless bloodshed and looting. There are happy photo ops with our 18-year-old, know-nothing troops. Thank you. If it weren't for you, we could never see these photos. Except on Fox. And Newsmax. And Freerepublic. And WorldNetDaily. And Lucianne. And Scarborough Country.......

[Kathy in Cambridge]

28. All hail the great and knowing Bush!

he was soooo right to send Iraq back to the dark ages! People who had health, running water and electricity have been without it since March '03! But they have freedom, dammit!

[Kali]

27. Hmmmm I just got these same photos from a freeper

acquaintence, why are YOU posting them?

the heading on the email I got was "Pictures From Iraq That Are Too Shocking & Graphic for The Mainstream Media"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

29. If it quacks like a duck, hit the alert button

[Warren DeMontague]

30. MORE UNBELIEVABLE PHOTOS

(warning: Graphic)

[m berst]

32. truly disgusting

I think the message the op intended is pretty clear - "See? You all are wrong and the Iraqis love us!"

The problem is that the poster betrays support for an attitude toward us - his fellow citizens - that makes a mockery of his claim.

People in this country were not free to hold up anything BUT "I Love Bush" signs at Republican rallies without being removed, threatened hassled and arrested. That means that we are to believe that the Iraqi people are more supportive of Bush than his own people are, does it not? Then one has to ask - if the Iraqi people are more supportive of Bush than we are, why does our military have to kill so many of them? Are they terrorists, or are they Bush loyalists who put half of the American people to shame in their understanding of the benefits of freedom Bush style? You can't have it both ways.

[walldude]

33. Whats unbelievable is the

incredible amount of ignorance in the people who think these photos tell the story of our wonderful military who have just done nothing but help the Iraqi people. Also that horrible liberal media who doesn't want you to see these "realities" of war, boy those guys should be shot.. ---sarcasm off---

[pinkpops]

34. They look so friendly - Now I know where I'll vacation this Summer.

[bowens43]

35. did you have a point of some kind?

It's amazing how nice people will be to someone carrying an automatic weapon, especially when they know that the person carrying the weapon can kill civilians with impunity.

Now let's see you post the photos of the 100,000 civilians who have been killed by the US military then go back where you belong.

[Catch22Dem]

36. Happens every day

That kind of thing goes on every day over there, EVERY DAY, guaranteed. Freeper types bitch that it doesn't get reported, and perhaps it should more, but what NEEDS to get reported are the atrocities.

Of course I don't think all our soldiers/sailors/marines/airmen are monsters. I wasn't a monster when I was in. I helped rebuild an orphanage, a soccer field, playgrond equipment, etc... The guys in these photos are most likely guys like me.

[rust1d]

37. Thank You Mr Bush

The car that the little boy holding that sign was in was bombed in the next very frame...

http://www.notthistimegeorge.org">A Daily Linking of the Lies of the Bush Regime

[Kali]

46. link does not work (eom)

[magnolia]

38. I looked at all the pictures.

I'm glad that some of the Iraqi children got gifts...that's nice. But these pictures are staged. The handwritten signs are American handwriting. Even European handwriting that uses the same letters as we do is different than ours. These signs were definitely written by Americans and I bet the people holding them don't even know what they say.

[datasuspect]

39. well

aren't you the precocious little bugger?

another 007 of the internet, eh?

do you feel better know that you "showed us?"

[noamnety]

40. That's a swell tactic

"Capt. Ayers took lessons from his fellow captains. In April, Capt. Jesse Beaudin convinced a friend from the U.S. to send backpacks, notebooks and pencils for schoolchildren. Kids mobbed troops for the goods whenever they went out on patrol. "The kids provided security. No one attacked us when we were surrounded by children," Capt. Beaudin says. After hearing about this tactic at the dining hall, Capt. Ayers's men also wrote home requesting school supplies." -- "Trial by Fire," Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2004


www.worddiq.com defines a human shield as

"a military term describing the use of civilians to deter an enemy from attacking certain targets—in particular military targets. International law considers the use of human shields to protect military targets a war crime."

[seabeyond]

41. how old are these photos

rigt after the take over. iraqi's gave us a year grace to help them. we stole and didnt help them. but it was pretty much violent free waiting for the u.s. to get their shit together.

give us a date on when these photos were taken. bet it wasnt recent

[w4rma]

43. There are lot's of photo-ops of no or little substance everywhere.

No substance.

[Radio-Active]

44. Some of these people have excellent English penmanship

[UpsideDownFlag]

45. ..formerly known as graciepoo? with 13 posts? nt

[Carl Brennan]

47. Please delete double post

[Carl Brennan]

48. Please delete

[Carl Brennan]

49. Agreed.

They are unbelievable and I don't believe em'. :bounce:

[kentuck]

50. Does that mean we're winning the war against those people that attacked us

Or is this meant to enlist our support for an illegal and criminal invasion??

[Bluebear]

51. OMG this is HUGH!!!!!! We won!!! We won the war!!!!!!

Peeance, freeance, bring home the troop's, we WON!!!!!!!

[pointsoflight]

52. Wow, everything's great. I assume we'll be leaving Iraq now, right?

[bhikkhu]

53. Picture those kids + a little white phosphorus

and you have the present. Everything has been done wrong, thats the point of a set of dated happy little photos.

[ilovenicepeople]

66. and now there is talk of chemical weapons being used in Fallujah

and the sad thing is I have no reason to not believe it.GOD HELP US :cry:

[Minstrel Boy]

54. Have you ever seen the Nazi wartime magazine "Signal"?

I have an anthology. It published in English, among other languages. It was Hitler's version of "Life." (In fact, after the war, a number of Signal's staff were hired by Life.)

Anyway, I could show you pictures of the Wehrmacht being greeted by smiling faces all across Europe.

[Bluebear]

55. Wherever did the OP go???

[Walt Starr]

58. Hit and run

Lot of that going on these days.

[RetroLounge]

56. Hit and Run post

I'll ignore...

RL

[La Lioness Priyanka]

57. some iraqi's i am sure are happy

however is this a majority opinion in iraq? have you checked? we are killing them in large number still, right?

[Redleg]

68. Good point.

Freepers seem to like anecdotal evidence more than empirical evidence.

[jokerman93]

59. I just wonder

Ijustwonder how many of those smiling kids have been blown up, ripped apart, or burned alive since those propaganda shots were taken.

Ijustwonder...

[VOX]

60. Yes, I recall clearly how *, Rummy & Condi said "This one's for the kids!"

Our hot-to-trot invasion of Iraq had, um, **nothing** to do with glomming onto the world's largest untapped oil reserve, or rooting out alleged WMDs, or copping fat contracts for war profiteers, or letting Halliburtion charge the bejeezus out of the U.S. government for services unrendered, or, like Condi said, "waking up to find that the smoking gun was a mushroom cloud."

No, it was all about spreading freedom and doing it for the kids of Iraq! We saved them from the infamous mythological woodchippers! Can you believe how fucking ALTRUISTIC BushCo is?

Oh yeah, "Mission is so ***NOT*** Accomplished!" :grr:

[2bfree]

61. These have been circulation on email for a while.

With the caption "what the liberal media doesn't want you to know" please!

[cidliz2004]

62. Do you think that we went to Iraq just to do evil?

Do you think that we didn't have the brains to have some pretense? Do you beleive that this administration is so stupid that it wouldn't even try to reach out to some of the Iraqi's with some good?
Do you think that by giving them bread and water, they most certainly expect some of the Iraqi people to "buy into" thier "announced" reason for occupying this country? Look at all of the people in the U.S. that voted for Bush? Many of them are directly adversely affected by his policies, yet they vote for him?

Of course there are some "goodies" being handed out to the Iraqi people, but not nearly enough.

[fob]

63. You guys are getting a LOT of mileage out of these 5 photos. I've

gotten these in various right-winger emails for a while now. You must have been really excited at the footage in Fahrenheit 9/11 that showed Iraqis having a birthday party and generally going about life under saddam. Maybe that's what pissed bush off, he just knew he could be a better dictator!

[G_j]

64. same photos

being circulated among the troops and sent home to show it's not so bad.
Five photos are not many compared to the hundreds of heartbreaking ones.

[Cat Atomic]

65. Check out THIS great picture from Baghdad!

See how happy they are??!??!

[Redleg]

67. I noticed "burpsalot" didn't stick around to read your replies.

Hmmmm.