Sakpo

These were sadly lacking in the mainstream coverage of the war here in North America (I speak as someone who saw Canadian and American coverage; I don't know about coverage in Mexico). I think they must be looked at whether or not you supported the war / support the occupation. They are an important aspect of this war that must be considered. Pictures can often convey far more than words. For those of us opposed to the war/occupation, they confirm the disgusting price paid for the new mess in Iraq, where hospitals full of these victims went unprotected while marines guarded the staplers of the oil ministry. I'm sure others will interpret them in other ways, but hopefully they will underscore, for everyone, some of the tragic results of this war. As it grows increasingly unlikely deployable WOMDs� will be found (while it becomes more and more clear the war proponents used deceptive practices in marketing the war, knowingly using fake documents and the like), and the obvious facts that this is not a humanitarian mission grows increasingly clear (carefully guarding the oil ministry while Rumsfield literally cracked jokes about looting as hospitals and museums were looted, the fact that we are staying buddies with other bad regimes, etc), hopefully people will question this war and those who plotted and carried it out more critically.

Look.

Obviously, these pictures have blood and gore.

paul30

Dear Sakpo:

I don't think you understand.

War conducted by the US is always, by definition, benign.

Only evil people get hurt. Good people never get hurt or killed, and always run smiling toward US troops jubilant with welcome.

Even IF a good person should get hurt--this never happens, of course--but say if a little boy gets his arms blown off, he will smile angelically and thank his liberators and ask the kind Western doctors if they can give him new hands. He is a symbol of plucky courage and a lover of freedom. But this could never happen.

War conducted by others--Iraqis defending their country from invasion, for example--is always sneaky and ruthless and illegal and cowardly: how DARE they place their soldiers and weapons in populated areas, where we can't shoot them?

And the fact those evil people didn't use the chemical and biological weapons they clearly had and the fact we cannot find them just means they are more devious than anyone thought and shipped the weapons to Syria--which is, of course, a reason to invade Syria.

All clear?

Remember. US warmaking is "surgical." Warmaking by others is always an "ambush."