Iraq before. Afghanistan before. Two photos.

ConsAreLiars

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:02 AM
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Iraq before. Afghanistan before. Two photos.

Edited on Sat Aug-01-09 02:23 AM by ConsAreLiars

Photo by Bob Haynes (no web gallery found so far)

Photo by Luke Powell: http://www.lukepowell.com/

(edit to credit the photographers)

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davepc

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:06 AM
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1. Have any before and afters of the Bamyan Buddha Statues?

Since Afghanistan was such an idyllic tranquil place under the Taliban.

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Dreamer Tatum

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:24 AM
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4. Ba-ZING nt

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ConsAreLiars

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:41 AM
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7. How do you weigh that provoked idiocy against the mass murder of millions?

Edited on Sat Aug-01-09 03:06 AM by ConsAreLiars

Well, I guess I already know the answer.

Do you need to see pictures of hundreds and thousands of maimed and killed and blood-spattered innocents? The pictures are available if you need them to attain or regain your humanity.

Here's one:

(edit to fix bad link)

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Sat Aug-01-09 03:02 AM
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davepc

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Sat Aug-01-09 09:55 AM
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19. Before the US came, mass murder was unknown to the peace loving peoples of afganistan and iraq

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:58 AM
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12. ...

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/buddha-statue-afghanistan.html

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Sleeping-Buddha-may-have-eluded-Taliban/2005/02/08/1107625213366.html

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Blue_In_AK

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:07 AM
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2. Beautiful shots, Cons.

I especially like the second one, but they are both gorgeous. I hope the day will come when the children can laugh and be happy again. :(

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ConsAreLiars

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:22 AM
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3. Agree completely. I added the proper

attribution to the photographers in an edit. See the one link I found to a gallery for more stunning images of Afghanistan.

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Cid_B

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:44 AM
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8. *looks out the window*

Oh look... a bunch of goofy happy kids.

This is silly at best. Like everyone in this country just sits around with a big sad frowny face ever since we showed up. Sheesh...

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ConsAreLiars

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:53 AM
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10. "we" ???

You regard Bush, Cheney, the oil cartels and the multinationals and the death squads they control as "we"? Well, given your allegiance, there is no surprise that you regard the slaughter of innocent men, women and children with such indifference.

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Sat Aug-01-09 03:14 AM
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15. Yeah that must be it...

I'm sure you are really "deep" and you just "get it" more than the rest of us poor slobs.

I just thought you'd like to know that I saw a happy kid in Afghanistan today so your long wait is over.

Get over yourself.... :eyes:

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anonymous171

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:35 AM
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5. lol

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vadawg

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:41 AM
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6. im pretty sure we could find some nice pics of kids in nazi germany as well

somehow i dont think everything was peachy under sadam or the talibunnies...

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ConsAreLiars

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:48 AM
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9. Not surprised to see you guys coming out in this thread.

That things were not "peachy" before the mass slaughter of innocents is all you need to support the mass slaughter of innocents. "Saddam was a bad guy so murdering a more than a million was a good thing." I'd ask something about how vicious and jingoistic can one get, but I'd just get more of the same as a reply.

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vadawg

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:54 AM
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11. difference is my head isnt in the sands of the region pretending that all was peachy before the bad

westerners got involved, i guess it was okay when the talibunnies and sadam were killing their own people, kinda like some thought it was ok when adolf was only killing his own people and his neighbours....

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ConsAreLiars

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Sat Aug-01-09 03:47 AM
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17. I know and have known many whose lives are rather less than "peachy."

Killing them, as you endorse, never seemed like an option they would check in an opinion survey.

Employees/hirelings of the Corporatist International Murder Syndicate are no more at fault for the actions and orders of their masters than bank tellers are for theirs. Don't believe that getting a paycheck means you have to be brain dead, and maybe question why the terms of employment required getting brainwashed.

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EFerrari

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Sat Aug-01-09 03:04 AM
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14. So it's just as well we leveled Dresden. Those people weren't happy anyway.

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vadawg

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Sat Aug-01-09 03:18 AM
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16. yeah, got no problem with dresden being levelled, if only we could have done it in 39

might have ended the war a lot earlier...

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Cid_B

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Sat Aug-01-09 04:28 PM
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20. There was a gallery like that...

not kids as such but lots of happy young frauleins and their nazi boyfriends having parties and camping etc.. etc.. Wish I could remember where I saw that.

Probably part of the Kraft durch Freude. Damn thats going to bug me.

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Statistical

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Sat Aug-01-09 05:03 AM
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18. I am sure this womans children were just as happy

Bring back the Taliban, happy days for everyone (except those being executed for morality crimes). I mean she did ask to be publicly executed her alleged crime was adultery after all.

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anonymous171

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Sat Aug-01-09 04:46 PM
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21. Germany, before and after the Allied Invasion

Before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZIMam8KzI

After:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkWT1Rep2U

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