How did we come to this? Damn you George Bush!

Picture released by the U.S. Army Tuesday, May 3, 2005 shows a U.S. Army soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul, 360 km (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 2, 2005.


This is got to be the saddest picture I've ever seen. What we are doing is insane and all because of the madman occupying the Oval Office. Damn you George Bush, damn you to hell.

soldiers will be eternally damaged.

We will reap what we sow.

guess the media won't pick it up...if they did, I think it would change minds and hearts.

Can we send it to the WH? or we could send it to our congress critters. Is there a link?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/galleries/137-2.html?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

People need to see this picture. I can't believe the Army released it. Someone on the inside must be sick of this shit too.

To everyone you know
To every media outlet you know
to every politican
to every message board
send it to the whitehouse webpage
send it to every church group
send it to every right wing group
send it to every left wing group
send it to every usenet group
send it to the pentagon
send it to people, politicans, media around thre world

Go to non politican message boards and put it in thier off topic sections

Post it everywhere

With a little help from the people of DU this picture could be seen by tens of millions of people.

Here's a list of the newspapers carrying this picture on the front page today. I've added the websites and contact pages (for those I could find) in case anyone would like to send them a note:

St Petersburg Times (+ original gallery)
St Petersburg FL
http://www.sptimes.com
Contact info: http://connect.sptimes.com/contactus

Press Democrat
Santa Rosa CA
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/
Contact info: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/services/feedback.html

Republican-American
Waterbury CT
http://www.rep-am.com/
Select contact info at top of page

Washington Times
Washington DC
http://www.washtimes.com/
Contact info: http://www.washtimes.com/contact-us/

Miami Herald
Miami FL
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald
Contact info: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/contact_us/

Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus GA
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/
Contact info: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/contact_us/

Sun Journal
Lewiston ME
http://www.sunjournal.com/
Contact info: http://www.sunjournal.com/contact/index.php

Great Falls Tribune
Great Falls MT
http://www.greatfallstribune.com
Contact info: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/customerservice/contactus.html

Rumbo de Austin
Austin TX

Rumbo de Houston
Houston TX

Rumbo de San Antonio
San Antonio TX

Rumbo del Valle
McAllen TX

Folha de S.Paulo
Sao Paulo Brazil

National Post
Toronto Canada
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/index.html
Contact info: http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/info/contactus/index.html

source for front pages: http://www.newseum.org/

I think the point here is humanizing our soldiers, not decrying invasion/occupation.

Which they've been doing a lot lately.

aren't all like Bob Herbert portrayed them in the NYT.

I wonder if it depends on where you are in the country how much the soldiers harrass the civilians. Is it in some of the more remote areas, I wonder, whereas perhaps things are more civilized in the cities?

I don't know. Maybe the army thought it would make us mad to see what the insurgents are doing to civilians. Still, a very sad picture.

if Bush hadn't lied and invaded a sovereign nation for their oil. Suicide bombings didn't happen before the invasion.

Nope, I don't blame them for this pic. I blame George Bush. The death of that child and the destruction of that soldiers life are 100% his fault.

If the Pentagon was hoping to gain sympathy by publishing that pic, well then they blew it big time.

I was in high school when those Arabs flew the planes into the World Trade Center, and it was a terribily shocking thing to all of us kids.

And while I disagree with the way the US went into the Iraq war after that, I don't think it is right to say this, either: "Suicide bombings didn't happen before the invasion."

Those terrible men who killed thousands on September 11 were suicide bombers. None of this would have happened if they hadn't done what they did. That was the event that got the war efforts going.

Plus, that poor child in that picture ws killed by somebody's bomb. I don't know who did it, but it seems to me that the real blame for that child's horrible death should go to the person who set off that particular bomb.

Maybe I'm naive, but that's how I see it.

as a matter of fact, not a single one was from Iraq. Looks like we went after the wrong country.

BTW: Prior to the US Invasion of Iraq, suicide bombings were unheard of in Iraq.

That's all true. But it's also true that the suicide terrorists operate outside national affiliation.

They probably didn't go after Iraq before the war because they had no interest in S Hussein, and knew he was both ruthless and had absolute control of Iraq.

I'm not rrying to be argumentative here, but it seems there is more than one side to things as to who actually murdered that child.

the US is now the occupying force in Iraq. It is up to us to maintain law and order. Bush has done neither, nor does he want to. The blood of this child is on his hands. Please quit trying to make excuses for him because there is no excuse. Not when you invade a foreign country for reasons that are based on a pack of lies and you know they are a pack of lies.

"Those terrible men who killed thousands on September 11 were suicide bombers. None of this would have happened if they hadn't done what they did. That was the event that got the war efforts going."

We had a long discussion about the reasons for the Iraq War in our PoliSci course, and boy was it ever intense.

A couple of my fellow Democrats and I were making that argument and saying that the U.S. screwed up big time because the reason for the war was a lie and everybody knew it.

We had a few repug types who were arguing that the WMD reason was valid even though none were ever found, because all the intelligence people said there were WMD.

It got very heated and Prof Goldman steered us all away from the WMD. He said the real reason was strategic because the US needed to get a strategic position with its forces in the middle east where all the terrorists are. It was funny then, because both the repugs and us started arguing with him about that.

But then he said that's American strategic doctrine, to try and surround the enemy strategically or at least locate ourselves so we can make trouble for the enemy. He said that's the policy President Truman used after World War 2 against Russia and showed us on a map how American forces and NATO surrounded the Soviet Union on the west, the east and the south.

So what he really said was that the WMD was more of a smoke screen, and that Iraq was a convenient place to pursue the al Qaida terrorists and other muslim extremists, and that what triggered it all was the al Qaida attack on September 11.

We all just kind of, like, shut up after that.

He said the WMD was a convenient excuse to rally the American people, and that our intelligence agencies really did think there were WMD.

I really don't know, but what he said makes sense.

I think Bush wanted to go after Saddam even before he became President and they would have seized any excuse to so, even if it required twisting. I believe Bush the First even knew enough not to go into Iraq. There's the famous "he tried to kill my daddy" quote from W, and I'm sure it's a psychological case of a son wanting to impress his father. They're also *all* oilmen and Jr. is rewarding the oil industry.

Unfortunately many Americans don't distinguish between brown men in different Middle Eastern countries, so Bush made a token showing in Afghanistan where Bin Laden supposedly was (even though Saudi Arabia also seemed to have a finger in) and bled that right into Iraq. Thusly many people think we went to Iraq because of 9/11 and are all too willing to believe Saddam had something to do with it.

"really did think there were WMD."

You should get a copy of "Uncovered: The whole truth about the Iraq War" which includes interviews with weapons inspectors, anti-terrorism experts, and CIA analysts and operatives...who spell it out rather clearly that the White House would not accept that there were no WMDs and encouraged them to bend the truth.

Every bullshit piece of so-called "evidence" that the WH presented in the lead up to the war was debunked at the time. Any person who really followed the news at that point knew it was a lie. The world knew it was a lie. The biggest anti-war demonstrations in the history of the world should prove that.

All of the reasons for action are here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,863569,00.html
Some folks may need help to get through it, it's written rather plainly. I like the last line,, It was signed unanimously by all members of the security council,,go figure.

saddam repeatedly waved a bad-dog sign, without having a real dog, nor allowed anyone to verify whether there was a dog as he said.
This might help
http://www.agitprop.org.au/nowar/20030511_schrage_no_matter.php

His fwench buddies assured him that they wouldn't let anything bad happen to him as long as he slid them under-the-table oil, and bought french hardware with the proceeds.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040908-123000-1796r.htm

The inspectors had returned for the umpteenth time,,just got comfy in the hotel when Saddam turned on the tube and saw: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article525126.ece
It melted his heart. Fully emboldened, he picked up the phone, and kicked the inspectors out for the last time.
Poor planning, and trusting the fwench. Worse than crack.

You may flame me now.

It's true that the Bush Administration wanted a strategic location in the middle east. They were planning the invasion shortly after the inauguration. The Project for the New American Century (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.) wrote about it a couple of years before 2001. But they wanted a strategic location to assert their dominance as the sole world power-the Pan American Empire. They used sept 11 to win the emotional support of the American people for their aggression. It was the "Pearl Harbor" they said they needed.

Show us where you got that?

For the oil that you said we invaded for,, they keep diverting the oil-bid money to the Iraqi's,, when do we get ours?

Ooops,, seems the UN no-shows got to it first!
http://www.rferl.org/reports/corruptionwatch/2004/02/6-160204.asp

Oh yeah, obviously, there would be no insurgents if we did nothing, nor dissenters, nor elections in nearby countries, french, german and ruskie oil would come cheaper to them, and the republican guard would still be trying to zero their new french 155 howitzers and fly their new russian foxbats.
That stuff was all found there in violation of the ban.

Am I banned yet?

Server wants to return cookies outside originating site.
I guess tha's ok for a while. The hiccup duplicated the post

Remember it was the Army that fought GW's war plans. Bush has replaced some key leaders with yes-men but I can tell you that many, if not most, in the Army are not supporters of Bush's oil war.

Can you show me where you got this, or only tell me?

Of photo's. I glanced through a couple dozen. Many of them are gripping and certainly not something MSM portrays.

Send it.

of The Miami Herald this morning. I expect to read a lot of LTTE about it starting tomorrow.

like most pictures from this area of Iraq, I always look extra close to see if it could be my baby brother. He has a child waiting for him here, just this age. This soldier probably has kids. I think this is such a sad picture of mutual comforting-- bring them home now.

That his brothers not have died in vain, let the job be completed.
Then bring them home from around the whole friggin world!
NO MORE VIETNAMS! From now on, we get 'er done!

that this soldier has a child of his own back home, don't you?

The soldier belongs home with his child, the child dying in his arms belongs home with his family, and George W. Bush belongs in prison, along with a sizeable chunk of his administration.

This country is stupid and blind and I am now thoroughly disgusted.
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Send this picture to all your congress-critters!

the voting machines being rigged, I know they were, I saw it with my own eyes, and still Ohio smolders, we know there were no WMD's, no biological weapons and thanks to the leak from the UK, we know that
reports were changed to support George's policy to invade Iraq, and
Iraq still smolders, GWB has created a new government that leaves out the Sunni's who are leading the insurgency, they are just going to go home and watch Tv and forget about ever having any oil ever again forever, after they have been the ruling party and they are just going to give up the oil because they like the Texan from Crawford.

But I could be wrong. Doesn't matter anyways.

towards this administration.

Fuck you Bush! You Bastard. :cry::cry: That picture just rips my heart in 2. :cry:

but Bush and his criminal administration will burn in hell for a very long time. Now that General Powell is gone, there is no shred of goodness left in this administration.

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n/t

he will have "disrupted poorly" in a minute.

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and the nitwit in the WH, maybe we could stick to the topic?

BTW: Welcome to DU :hi: (I think).

Yes, that's "intelegent" dialogue, for a "conservitive."

back. Don't come here and spew your pro-life propoganda and expect to be welcomed warmly. If you want to discuss, then discuss. Don't preach to us...your party does enough of that already.

What's with that?

Look at them again. Good spelling and syntax in the first post. Second post seems to be written by someone else entirely, it's almost child-like.

But I've noted the phenomenon you pointed out many times before. The poster either has a multiple personality disorder, or the poster(s) are in fact multiple people.

It's not a difference of opinion it is mass murder-genocide- I mean a civilizing mission.

Perhaps you really do believe the wash that has been put in your brain from a group of robber barons that would love to have you be cannon fodder.

I suspect your historical and economic analysis of the real reasons for the invasion-the most recent one-into Mesopotamia are forthcoming.

Don't pay homage to your slavemasters.

Note to Mods-I do hope hope this individual will be allowed to post. i think it can be of value-perhaps I am deluded-to encounter such unthinking allegiance to the State and Religion and the State as a religion.



They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting
to die for one's country.
But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying.
You will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemmingway -

another one bites the dust.

;)

There are some that just can't get out of the hate mode.

Like I said, I didn't see the posts, but the moderators give us a lot of leeway if we behave like human beings.

Still, even in prison the inmates will be the hardest on those that came in because they hurt children. And if someone uses the picture of a fatally wounded child as fuel for flame... I just don't know if they can be helped or not.

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You need to introduce yourself to snopes.com regarding the others.

And you're fixing to be tombstoned. buh-bye :hi:

In case you haven't heard...our military is responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of innocent people -- children included!!

If you are pro-life, that is wonderful...we all have our own opinions. Please leave the pro-life propoganda out of future posts, please.

THIS IS WHY WE WENT TO WAR

And this is what was accomplished.

BUSH DISARMED THIS IRAQI

And that is everything history will record about the Bush invasion of Iraq.

FIRE THE LIAR

Whatever happened to this Prince of Peace fella? Rationalize how a Christian nation can murder this poor little child. How bout we talk to some of the Holocaust survivors or maybe the children of dead Russians under Stalins reign. Governments decide who their constituents will kill. Didn't you know that is what we are doing over in Iraq? Killing innocent people. Some people call it war. You defend Bush's murderous attack on Iraq with abortion?

This is the WORST! It shows the sorrow and destruction from both sides. :cry:

FUCK gwb**! Fuck all of the fuckers that control him! Fuck them all!

:grr:

This terrorist was wounded when American soldiers fired on her car.



“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories … And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." —Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003



"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." —Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

in chlamor's post. I'm just wondering where the 666 is hiding...

It is truly the face of pure fuckin' evil.

that expression. It can't be done. It is disturbs on a visceral level.:scared: :grr: :grr:

Time well spent? Sounds productive to me.... ;)

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or lose for that matter - except lives. What is unfortunate, is that the Iraqi people are not our enemy (it's their liberation we're so concerned about right?) yet they are the ones dying in large numbers while the "enemy" eludes us and grows stronger. Nothing is so black and white ... Let's say that war was inevitable (though I disagree) there are still proper ways to go about it. You haven't had to live in a war zone, and how one could ever cheer on war is beyond me. I hope you are sincere, and with that ... welcome.

On edit: Spoke too soon ... goodbye!

The Iraqi's were never our enemy, and only the agenda-driven would forget Dubya's admonitions of such as he singled Saddam and his terror organization as the enemy in sooo many speeches in sooo many countries.
Very astute of you to voice that notion.
The requirement of liberation and restoration of the populations infrastructures, if you remember, was added by Democrats as the final condition of their approval, which they gave shortly before changing sides. Not very astute.
Need links?

in unctuous tones that he would pursue all avenues of diplomacy, and would wait to see the results from the inspectors before resorting to the last resort. I remember the feeling of hanging onto some hope that he would be true to his word; I held that reassurance as if it would protect us all, that he must have some shred of decency, that in spite of his betrayal of Texas (what little I knew about), of women, of the elections process, this would be his moment of honesty.

That lasted one day. Blitz said they found no evidence of weapons and the king of liars promptly ignored him and blasted away full steam ahead. Pumping his arms at the adrenaline rush of destroying a city and a country that did nothing to us, not to mention the rush it must be to know you pulled a fast one on the U.S. populace and the world.

This is one atrocity among many.

Aaah god sometimes I can't believe this is happening.

and this suffering still happens in service to the wealth and power of the corrupt and diseased in spirit.

on CNNFAUXMSNBCBSABC? Not is your wildest dreams. "The American people don't have the stomach for this" or "it's a matter of decency and taste" is the usual claptrap corporate response we hear from "respected" journalists as to why we don't see these kind of images in the MSM. They don't move product What is decent about not wanting to see or know the truth? What is decent about not acknowledeging the murder of children? What is decent about our rampant and insidious consumerism that trumps the truth most the time? Greed and hearts of stone. Cold stone granite.
I am so sad for this country I once thought of as home. I feel like such a stranger in Amerika. When will it end? America, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!

It will haunt me for days or weeks before I know what to say.

of the fireman with the dead toddler in his arms, and that may be part of the reason it is so very haunting. Bless the soldier and the babe in his arms.

So, so sad.

too.

There are a thousand points of darkness at play in this tragedy.

He's crying over the death of this poor innocent child. :cry:

up is down

black is white

and that is really saying something

I can't even look at it for too long without feeling sick

:cry: :grr: :mad: :argh: :cry:

He was told he was doing his duty... twenty years from now he will still remember and he will not like what he remembers... I know....

will look back and be glad he could give comfort to a dying child who could not be comforted by his mother.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Luke 17: 2

Let's not get too het up about all these stupid BORN babies -- they can take care of their own selves. Plus the babies in Eye-Rack are probably heathen Ay-rab anyways.

/thanks for posting picture - I'll bet the conservative papers that published it thought it made our troops look compassionate (and I'm certain many of them are) and didn't give a thought that it might remind folks exactly what the BFEE got us into....
Culture of life my ass

Where are all those "religious-fundie-wundies," now?!? How come their not screaming from their glorified tax-exempt holier-then-all's pulpits about this?

How about all those Republican Senators & Representatives, with US pins adorning those lapels... where in the hell are they?

I tell ya, never in my life did I ever witness such blatent arrogant ignorance, nor such hate-minded, war-mongreled, money-happy brainwashers, using the lord's name in vain for their greedy, wicked $$ causes.

Goddamn motherfuckers.

with Bush stickers and ribbons on their cars.

... the soldier could be my child, and the child could be my grandchild... and they are each precious to me.

May God / Allah / Jehovah / YHWH / the Creator / Waheguru / the One have mercy on us, awaken our souls and restore our humanity

and this picture is getting me misty.

Although i agree we should not have gone in to begin with, how about blaming the motherfucker who planted the bomb?

Right or wrong, we're there now. We've got to make the best of a bad situation, but the assholes who are killing their own people and setting car bombs off left and right are not just our enemy, but the enemy of their own people.

There's only one thing to do with them, hunt them down and kill them.

killing people. That's what got us in the mess to start with. And all completely unnecessary - all of it.

We shouldn't have gone in to begin with.

Iran and N. Korea are far more serious threats, and we can't adequately deal with them, and we sapped manpower from Afghanistan.

But we're in Iraq now, for good or ill.

What do you think would happen if we just left?

It would collapse into anarchy and civil war, and you'd have a scary taliban-style theocracy emerge. Talk about a breeding ground for terrorists...

We broke it, we MUST fix it.

That means restoring order, rebuilding infrastructure, and providing security, until they can provide their own enough to maintain a stable reasonable government.

And yes, we're going to have to kill a lot of fundamentalists to do it. I shed no tears over the deaths of the taliban leaders who terrorised their own people, and allowed their country to become a training ground for Al Quaida.

I disagreed with our invasion of Iraq, but shed no tears for Uday and Qusay Hussein - they were thoroughly evil men. I shed no tears for the people who build car bombs and kill their own people to prevent us from restoring order -- they are hoping we will give up and leave, and give Iraq to the madmen.

I do shed tears for the loss of truly innocent life in this war, such as the child pictured above, and the 'collateral damage' caused by our bombs.

But I wonder, how many died under the economic sanctions we imposed, and how much outrage was there from us over that? The only difference is the death we are causing now is more visible, and more likely to be aimed at those who really deserve it.

I think hell is to good for GWB.

Damn you George Bush, damn you to hell.


My sentiments exactly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,863569,00.html
If you don't understand what this is, what is says and what it means, well, that's not unusual,,saddam didn't get it either,, 'till later.
But seein' as he now understands, that put's him ahead of you.
If you like this photo, there will be many more coming now that the terrorists have been treated to a 6 million Euro weapons-shopping spree by one of our ransom payin' allies.
Hey, the milk in the fridge soured and the neighbors kid is cryin! Blame Dubya!