So. Where is the Picture of the Screaming Blood Covered Iraqi Girl?

[maxrandb]

I mean really!? Why is this not being shown in the national media. Are they really that far up *'s ass? Where is the add from Move-On to get this picture out there?

That was one of the most disturbing and chilling images I think I can recall. It is on a par with the Napalm Photo from Vietnam, the Assination Photo from Vietnam, the pictures of Auschwitz in WWII, and the Assasination of JFK film.

Why has this obviously news-worthy, historically significant picture vanished from the news?

Could it be that they are afraid to show what we really have become?

Are they afraid that Americans can't handle it?

Are they afraid that * support would tank, and all their cushy little newscaster jobs would go away?

or Are they afraid that they DID NOT DO THEIR JOB and CARRIED WATER for this Admin? Maybe they're concerned that the blood is on their hands as well.

[sus]

1. link to picture?

I haven't seen it yet.

[maxrandb]

11. I don't. But it was on DU a few days ago

It was the one where our troops shot at a car approaching a check-point killing the mother and father in the front seat. There were 5 children in the back. Basically, they were signaled to stop, didn't understand, or failed to see. The image of the little girl screaming with the blood and brains of her parents on her little hands, with an American soldier in the background with his face covered, is an image that will stay with me forever.

Sorry, but my point was that it being on this web-site and a couple a papers around the country was definitely not the exposure it deserved. It should have been on the nightly news.

[Karenina]

25. It was NOT a "checkpoint."

It was a foot patrol.

[Streetdoc270]

2. do you have the pic?

or a link? We can get it distributed far and wide...

[CoffeeCat]

3. I agree...

...the picture of that little girl evokes so much emotion.

I showed it to my husband and he was upset the entire evening.

That picture should be up on billboards.

I'd like to see some ad campaigns--regarding the horrid failure of Iraq.

The campaign needs to extend beyond the presidential campaign.

We've got the truth on our side. We just need to get it out to the masses.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Here is a link to that photo.. Very graphic.

Sorry, meant to post the link, not the photo

[CottonBear]

5. BBC

BBC has a picture story of about 9 photos of the event which include the one which you're looking for. Look under BBC, World. Middle East.

[BlueEyedSon]

10. The series is chilling. There were 5 children on the car.

The parents were shot to bits.

So now we have 5 orphaned, traumatized, America-loving kids.

[Stephanie]

16. I found it >>>

In pictures: Shooting in Tal Afar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/middle_east_shooting_in_tal_afar/html/1.stm

[LeftHander]

6. got it here:

http://wherearetheweapons.blogspot.com

[SmokingJacket]

7. I for one couldn't handle seeing it. I cried on and off all day.

It made me feel EXTREMELY anti-Bush, anti-war, pro-peace.

When my husband went to work on his retirement account, I told him to make sure there were NO defense contracting companies in the investment portfolio.

I started thinking about social programs, what I'd want my country to do for children in similar situations in our country. And I made a decision to sponsor an overseas orphan -- money that won't now go to Pottery Barn or some other crap place.

In short, one glimpse of that photo diverted a lot of funds from B*. Imagine if that were replicated all over the country. DISASTER FOR THE ASSHOLES!

[anarchy1999]

12. All day? I'm still crying.

I'm in a funk I can't quite seem to be able to pull out of.

This (these last couple of months), has been for me a mind-bending roller-coaster ride from hell.

This picture would have been and should have been all over the world. You're right, where did it go? I have an idea, print as many copies as you can afford, provide a website with a link as well and then spread them everywhere, especially in churches (restrooms, billboards, gift shops (I know, in churches, they do have them), folded in half in the song books and bibles, etc.). It works. Chaos Marketing 101.

[anarchy1999]

8. Can you say propaganda? Can you spell propaganda? Do you know the

definition?

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

It's not so much "they are up Bush's...", but that it is corporatism, facism, call it what you may. Bush and family have been involved in what is happening now for at least the last 50 years, along with all the owners of all the corps reaping the profits from the US "military-industrial complex". Ike E. warned us all in his farewell speech. He said "BEWARE".

[ChairOne]

9. here ya go:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/24/12129/8614

Freedom is on the march! Drop by coagulating drop.

[eek]

14. Chris Hondros Getty Images

If this does not work as a link then go to gettyimages.com and search in Editorial for Hondros

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesAdvancedSearchState|2|0|30||0|0|0||1|||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0||0|Hondros|7|-1||0||0|0|0|0&p=0


Here is a dispatch written by Hondros, posted on Photo District News
http://www.pdnonline.com/photodistrictnews/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000768970

(snip)

"Stop that car!" someone shouted out, seemingly simultaneously with someone firing what sounded like warning shots -- a staccato, measured burst. The car continued coming. And then perhaps less than a second later a cacophony of fire, shots rattling off in a chaotic overlapping din. The car entered the intersection on its momentum and still shots were penetrating it and slicing it. Finally the shooting stopped, the car drifted listlessly, clearly no longer being steered, and came to a rest on a curb. Soldiers began to approach it warily.
(snip)
"Civilians!" someone shouted, and soldiers ran up. More children -- it ended up being six all told -- started emerging, crying, their faces mottled with blood in long streaks. The troops carried them all off to a nearby sidewalk.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. They weren't trying to run a checkpoint. They were apparently

out celebrating Eid, visiting family, and got caught by the curfew, driving home.

The patrol fired warning shots, into the front windshield. They never had a chance to stop, or identify themselves.

The only difference between this and a thousand other such incidents is that this time there was a photographer there. Otherwise, it would be a three line note at the end of an article about how everything is going so well.

I can't imagine the horror those children experienced, going out for a holiday. They will grow up loving the freedom we have bestowed upon them, no doubt.

[maxrandb]

20. They Just Don't Get It

I said it before, but I'll say it again; "You could build a thousand schools and a million hospitals, and it would not lesson that girls pain."

They talk about the "good" things in Iraq as if it were a "zero sum" game!

Bad: You just saw your mom's head explode and her brains are all over your dress.

Good: We opened a school today.

See it all adds up?? Equal right?

I heard someone talking the other day about "bringing Democracy to Iraq, and how this is just like what our 'forefathers' did in the American Revolution." My response shut him up. I said; "this is like our revolution only if you are saying that France came over here and imposed Democracy on us."

Fact: Freedom and Democracy are only going to work when they come about from within. How many examples of this fact do we need before we get it?

Fact: Freedom doesn't come from God! If you believe that freedom comes from God, then you must also believe that God can take it away. But who defines God? Until he comes down here and takes my freedom away, you better keep your fucking hands off of it. Unless your saying that you speak for God. And that is even scarier.

[Up2Late]

13. If you really want to see some of *'s newly "Liberated"

Click the link below.

Warning: If pictures of victims of U.S. Bombing disturbs you, don't click this link, VERY Graphic Pictures! :evilfrown:

<http://www.einswine.com/atrocities/>

If you just want to see *'s head explode, click the link below here (It's a French site!):evilgrin:
<http://www.antibush.fr.fm/>

[eek]

15. send the photog's story + photos to "pro life" groups

and any other "I voted for * because of the "values" issue. We have to protect the innocent children."

"Innocent" like these Iraqi children?
"Innocent" like these soldiers,just kids themselves- forced intoliving hell, forced to do things that will doubtless haunt them everafter.

Things that most of the "Leaders" that sent them here couldn't understand because they had better things to do when their country called.


Hey Values Voters: VALUE THIS!

[eek]

18. can anyone think of a way to get these to Pickles?

n/t

[maxrandb]

21. Or Better

I'd like to imprint them on Babs' Beautiful Mind.

[RapidCreek]

19. It's one of the "good things" happening in Iraq. You know, the good

things our liberal media just won't show.

RC

[Bethany Rockafella]

22. I had it on my profile but the mods said it was too graphic.

And that I should put a warning before I post the pic. I didn't think it was that graphic that I had to delete it.

[RapidCreek]

27. Yep and that's just the problem...Reality is just to graphic for some

folks, so we just try and ignore it. Great to see it ain't any different here than it is on fox news. I'm sure they'd give you the same answer if you asked them why they don't accurately depict the war....you know graphically and realistically.

RC

[theresistance]

23. The MSM just sanitizing its coverage

and covering up the killing of Bush...And the next car bomb will receive wide coverage.

[spanone]

24. Mommy & Daddy are gone...American Family Values...you'll grow to love it.

That's what they get for not having weapons of mass destruction.

[Up2Late]

26. Kick n/t

:kick:

[tubbacheez]

28. kick n/t

[d_b]

29. Its been my wallpaper for a few days now.