God DAMMIT This Picture Haunts Me...

[WillyT]

Found it at Crooksandliars. It's called: girl-dead-parent.jpg

I don't know what conflict it is from, and I'm pretty fucking sure that that doesn't matter one bit.

FUCK!!!

:nuke:

[BlooInBloo]

1. Sigh.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. What a waste of lives.

:cry: How can people do this to other people?

[The Straight Story]

3. War is hell - except to the elite who start them.

That picture means nothing to them.

And that is why I don't want a centrist who sucks at the tit of corporations being the leader of our party like the repubs have.

Thanks for a dose of reality.

[deutsey]

10. 'Why should we hear about body bags and deaths?

It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'

Barbara Bush said that.

I wonder, how can one live with that mentality?

Apparently, quite well and quite comfortably.

[kurth]

4. Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan

[Vexatious Ape]

5. I'm easily haunted by pics like that.

I'll never forget the story, a few years ago in Newsweek where a Iraqi mother and father where mistakingly gunned down at a checkpoint in front of their children. I remember the traumatized children awash in blood crying in disbelief and horror, not unlike the girl in this picture.

[Thor_MN]

6. How the hell does one take that picture?

How can you be holding a camera instead of that little girl?

[Bluerthanblue]

15. because

taking the picture is the only possible way her pain and loss can begin to be brought home to those of us who sit in the relative comfort and safety of our 'nation at war'

it is bearing witness- (i have no doubt it is soul-numbingly painful witness)
to those who pay the price for this worlds greed and lust.

and it should haunt us, shouldn't it???

geez, if we can't feel the anguish of what is happening when looking at this, perhaps it is time for humanity to become extinct.


:cry:

blu

[SeattleGirl]

7. No, it doesn't really matter what conflict it is from.

And in a way, it doesn't matter if the US was a part of it.

War is war is war is war.

And I don't care how many "smart bombs" are dropped.

There will always, ALWAYS be innocent civilians killed.

There will always be children who lose their parents.

There will always be parents who lose their children.

There will always be the loss of friends and family.

There will always be the senseless, useless loss of life.

Always and forever.

Until someday, probably in the very distant future,

when the people of this blessed earth decide that enough is enough,

that there is a better way to resolve things than war.

I doubt I will ever see it in my lifetime.

And perhaps my daughter will not see it in hers.

But still, I hold out the hope that the day will come

when a better, more life-affirming, peaceful way will be found

to settle conflicts.

And if you please, God, don't let too many generations pass before my plea becomes reality.

[cureautismnow]

8. Amen.

Well said.

[WillyT]

16. Double Amen !!!

Beautifully said.

And the most terrible thing of all, is that it could have happened in our lifetimes.

I think the U.N. needs to be revitalized, and The Hague needs to be operating at 100% capacity.

I think I could support kidnapping and rendition to The Hague for war mongering national leaders, generals, and their ilk. Including our own.

:shrug:

[samplegirl]

9. One single cell from an Embryo is important though?

Damn!!!!!!

[Philosoraptor]

11. One of those images they don't want us to see.

[Javaman]

12. My God, I have been looking for that same pic. For the very same reason.

I saw it once and it has burned an image in my brain.

I just feel the blood drain from my soul.

[yardwork]

13. Images from Fahrenheit 9-11 still haunt me, too.

The one that haunts me the most is the little boy sitting with his father, who was wearing a hood behind barbed wire at Abu Ghraib.

I wonder what happened to that little boy and his father.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Gandhi said it best.

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.” - Gandhi

[AliceWonderland]

17. That's what war looks like. That's why so many people hate it. n/t