Wednesday, May 26, 2004
The Pictures We're Not Seeing
The grizly pictures from Iraq have a visceral effect that the words "torture" and "beheading" don't.
Imagine pictures of thousands of wounded twisted broken bodies, faces twisted in pain. Imagine pictures of the dead. Twelve thousand, more or less. Four September Elevenths. Or thirty-six jumbo jet crashes. Bits of flesh. A hand. A piece of a face. Imagine pictures of the mother face, twisted in grief when she recognizes that piece of face as a fragment of her child. These scenes are happening.
We do not see the pictures because they're "in bad taste."
Author Tom Clancy, a "good conservative," was on Fox TV yesterday saying that the U.S. did not have a "causus belli" in Iraq. Translation: the U.S. did not have a reason to go to war.
Twisted.
Imagine pictures of thousands of wounded twisted broken bodies, faces twisted in pain. Imagine pictures of the dead. Twelve thousand, more or less. Four September Elevenths. Or thirty-six jumbo jet crashes. Bits of flesh. A hand. A piece of a face. Imagine pictures of the mother face, twisted in grief when she recognizes that piece of face as a fragment of her child. These scenes are happening.
We do not see the pictures because they're "in bad taste."
Author Tom Clancy, a "good conservative," was on Fox TV yesterday saying that the U.S. did not have a "causus belli" in Iraq. Translation: the U.S. did not have a reason to go to war.
Twisted.
Comments:
"12,000 more or less"
Much less. More like 4,000. Approximately 1 September Eleventh.
One year of US control and the death toll approximates one month of Saddam's control.
As for not seeing the pictures because "they are in bad taste" - if that were true, why are we seeing prison abuse photos?
The press never hesitates to publish a photo for reasons of taste.
Much less. More like 4,000. Approximately 1 September Eleventh.
One year of US control and the death toll approximates one month of Saddam's control.
As for not seeing the pictures because "they are in bad taste" - if that were true, why are we seeing prison abuse photos?
The press never hesitates to publish a photo for reasons of taste.
Another victim of false political hype has spoken. Dude!There were no Iraqis on the planes of 9/11. Wake up and smell the napalm!!
The cause for attacking Iraq had nothing to do with this and it is a shame that some people still fall under the mendacity of the media.
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The cause for attacking Iraq had nothing to do with this and it is a shame that some people still fall under the mendacity of the media.
