I never thought about how many pictures like this must exist..

wtf

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Tue May-18-04 02:02 PM
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I never thought about how many pictures like this must exist..

Edited on Tue May-18-04 02:02 PM by wtf

This was found posted on a Hanson message board of all places.

My husband is a corpsman for the marines, he's not in Iraq yet but has some friends who have been there and are back now. Anyway, he came home the other day and said that they had some pictures they took and one of them was of an iraqi totally flattened, he had been ran over by a tank, and the other was of OUR soldiers kicking around an iraqi's head. Ok, I totally support the war but I think this is horrible and really really wrong of our guys to be doing. I know that most of us over there are doing the right thing but they need to really do something about the ones who arent.

I can't imagine what's going to happen when soldier's personal pictures from Iraq start making their way to the media.

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Rick Myers

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Tue May-18-04 02:04 PM
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1. The number of digital cameras, etc...

Will change the way this war is seen. Remember, we haven't seen ANYTHING yet!!! It will change the way people view war (hopefully)!

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TexasMexican

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Tue May-18-04 02:07 PM
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2. I doubt it will matter much.

"I can't imagine what's going to happen when soldier's personal pictures from Iraq start making their way to the media."

I imagine nothing will come of it unless its another "abuse" thing or some other criminal acts.

I dont think there is anything illegal about taking pictures or videotaping stuff. So I doubt the news and print media will show any of it unless its something important.

It will probably end up on the internet though. Orgish.com and the like.

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billybob537

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Tue May-18-04 02:07 PM
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3. Reply

"I know that most of us over there are doing the right thing"

Guess what no one over there is doing the right thing. We don't belong there. It is not a righteous war. It is a war for profit for Oil Cos. and Halliburton.

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rumguy

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Tue May-18-04 02:11 PM
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4. there are undoubtedly thousands of gruesome images

captured w/dig. cams just waiting to flood the interent...

it's only a matter of time before such images are floathing around the internet...

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cosmicdot

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Tue May-18-04 02:30 PM
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8. is that when *Bush-Cheney-Ashcroft pull the Internet plug

for national security reasons or similar?

of course, they shouldn't want to upset e-commerce

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Minstrel Boy

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Tue May-18-04 02:14 PM
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5. Pictures like these have been taken in wartime since

Edited on Tue May-18-04 02:14 PM by Minstrel Boy

the invention of photography. That doesn't lessen the horror of the events recorded; it just sheds some light upon the grinding atrocity that is war. All war; even the rare, justified kind.

War ought not to be waged for a small reason, let alone a lie.

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The Stranger

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Tue May-18-04 02:15 PM
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6. Marvelling and revelling in destruction of other human beings is the

Edited on Tue May-18-04 02:15 PM by TheStranger

culture that has been created. It benefits greatly from people mindlessly supporting the war.

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louis-t

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Tue May-18-04 02:24 PM
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7. My personal fantasy....

is to grab (insert your choice: Bush*, cheney, rummy, wolfie, etc) by the neck and shove his fat smirking face into a dying US soldiers open wound and scream "THIS IS WHAT WAR IS YOU F**K!"

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