If I failed to warn you about a graphic war image, would you be offended?

If I had enclosed a photo of an Iraqi child with his brains blown out all over the street, would you be yelling at me? Would you say, "you should warn people about graphic images of war with the word 'graphic'?

Too sensitive to see what our tax dollars are used for? Too good for that? Are you afraid you'll get sick to look at it? Too heartbreaking? Too harsh?

I suggest that if you really can't bear to see such images, you are part of the problem and you are playing right into bush's hands.

He DELIBERATELY hides these images from us, and the dead soldiers and their flag draped coffins too. He knows that if these images were to be widely seen by moms and dads across America, our 'WILL FOR WAR' will be damaged and diminished.

This WHOLE FUCKING WAR is being hidden from us for a reason.

ALL CHANNELS, 3 HOURS A DAY.

I watched the carnage of Vietnam in HORROR. It shaped my politics and morality for the rest of my life.

Time to make a bonfire of those god damned yellow ribbons.

but there are people who are particularly sensitive to such things due to personal experience, PTSD, etc, and out of respect for that minority of people, I would always recommend putting a warning in a thread title...

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Maybe if people saw these images we would have these chickenhawks screaming "glass parking lot" and garbage like that.

And what about the children? Don't you know that there are children who read this site?
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I agree with you. If Americans weren't so (deliberately) insulated from the reality of what is being done on our names, we may stand up in mass and revolt against it. Can't have that now can we? :eyes:

Reality has a habit of sneaking up on people, we better learn to deal with it.

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"I suggest that if you really can't bear to see such images, you are part of the problem and you are playing right into bush's hands." I think that might be true of Americans in general - but when you are talking about people on this board I don't think it necessarily is (which seems to be what you are talking about, given your opening lines).

There are many reasons why one might not wish to see pictures of an Iraqi child with his brains blown all over the street. One is that they don't want to be confronted with what their support for an unjust war - but presumably most (if not all) members of DU don't support this unjust war. ANd there are other reasons not to want to look at those pictures.

I suppose you could make the argument that some of us aren't doing everything we can to stop the war- which in my case is certainly true. Maybe if I had my nose rubbed in what we were doing more often I'd give up my hobbies, quit watching television, etc. and fight against this war with every spare hour that I have. I don't know.

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but then, you sort of get used to it, for lack of a better term.

I also feel that we should see our grievously crippled soldiers, who are most definitely hidden from us, unless we can exploit them for republican rallies.

As long as we're not in jail or hospitalized, we're not "doing everything we can" - myself included. In a very real sense, this is the realpolitik of basic democracy. In even the most totalitarian state, the people trade their liberties for their comfort and status quo. As long as I hear people opining that the "troops" should refuse to obey orders, I know why we're in such sorry straits. It's easy to rhetorically shift the burden to someone else - and "let George do it." That's a 'vote' for what we've gotten. It's not just which 'side' one supports - it's about how much they're willing to invest in that support in blood, sweat, and tears.

What would be more effective in getting our troops home - trying to organize a massive peaceful demonstration of resistance, which would certainly put you in jail? Or volunteering for the local Democratic candidates campaign?

I can see good arguments to support both courses of action.

Bryant

Why shouldn't we see what we've done? (I still look before I flush.) :shrug:

We need to have our bad deeds shoved in our faces at every opportunity. We need to wake the fuck up and understand what is being done in our name.

That said, they are probably teens and have seen as bad in their video games.

There are many reasons why one may not wish to view such a photo besides not agreeing with your view of the war...

I can imagine that parent of a child killed in a car accident for example, may not wish to relive such a memory...which an image of a mutilated child might bring up.

In fact, I delight that it isn't completely, yet...