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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:01 PM
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I think everyone can agree that this is TOTALLY unneccesary
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 03:12 PM by underpants


Shin Young-ja(L) and Kim Jong-kyu, parents of South Korean Kim Sun-il who was kidnapped by Iraqi militants in Falluja, cry after hearing that their son had been killed, early June 23, 2004. An Iraqi group carried out its threat to behead the South Korean hostage, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday. It showed a brief extract of film showing a group of heavily armed gunmen, standing over a kneeling, blindfolded figure dressed in orange, saying they were about to carry out their threat. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:03 PM
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1. Devastating
:cry:
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TexasSissy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:03 PM
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12. Yes, devastating. "The horror."
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:04 PM
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2. The BFEE will do this more often as the election nears.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:04 PM
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3. Yep
it really was not. Thats a very moving image.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:09 PM
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4. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. This coupled with that tape of his pleas for his life....
I'm speechless, but horribly pained.
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pocket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:10 PM
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5. it is unnecessary to stick a camera in someone's face
while they grieve.

A big part of my crisis-intervention work is keeping the press off of people and blacking camera shots after an incident.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:15 PM
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7. "They" did the same thing with Nick Berg's father
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 03:17 PM by underpants
I can't find the image now but there was a picture of Michael Berg slumped onto the ground after a reporter walked up to him in his front yard and told him the sad horrible news.

Pathetic.
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pocket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:20 PM
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9. it's SOP
we have a lot of child drownings here in Phoenix, and there is always some reporter shoving a mic in a aprents face, asking them "How do you feel?"

I am not allowed to touch reporters, but I am encouraged to stand between them and victims and block their shot.
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Delano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:22 PM
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15. Thank god for photos like this
I hope any supporters of Bush's war will see it and get an inkling of the agony they are causing.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:10 PM
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6. What a horrible situation. I am so sorry for all of the
families Bushco has helped to damage. :(
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:18 PM
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8. Who let the camera in?
Totally unnecessary, and unkind, and just rude, to be there when these people are grieving over something so terrible.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:20 PM
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10. After seeing 9/11 happen
i really didn't think there would be anything that i couldn't stomach until now. I can't tolerate be headings, can't do it. The terrorists that continue to use this tactic must already know that, they have found the Achilles heel.

This one hit more worse than the others i think because we saw the video of this poor man pleading for his life. I can't begin to imagine what these people are going through but they have my most sincere condolences.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:22 PM
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11. If your dead your dead but it is so sad.
I do hope that all Am see this orange suit for what it is. Also that they behead is very Middle East and I can recall the horror of reading about WW2 and it being done in Asia to the people on the Bataan Death March. I think they knew that form of death really gets us up-tight.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:17 PM
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13. many things were unnecessary.
This photo...the beheadings...Abu Ghraib...the invasion of Iraq...
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:20 PM
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14. Those poor parents
:cry:
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:24 PM
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16. The terrorists only benefit
whether it is the terror of 'shock and awe' or the militant jihadists.
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