(link to pic) the Iraqi pogrom continues...Iraqis 'smile' while installing

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their own prison walls, concertina wire barricades, under American gunpoint...

the bush* "Happy Iraqi" propaganda photo of the day....
free at last...free at last...thank God almighty...free at last...

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=454458

Iraqi workers install concertina wire around the village of Uja, outside Tikrit, 193 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. American soldiers on Friday sealed off the village where Saddam Hussein was born and ordered adults to register for identity cards that will let them move in and out of the community - a hotbed of anti-American sentiment. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

[Military Brat]

1. Making the best of a bad situation

The Iraqis are probably making a joke at the soldier's expense, and that soldier would rather be home, anyway. Gawd, look at how young he is.

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2. and

how unhappy he is.

[Kinkistyle]

3. That image makes me want to cry...

When I see that pic images from "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" float through my head. ;(

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4. ""Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" float through my head"...yes

yes, and the horror just continues....everytime I think it can't get much worse...it gets worse....