"a boy tugged at my sleeve and asked whether I wanted to see a foot". . .

[OneBlueSky]

(warining: graphic image if you click on this link . . .)

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/29/baghdad_diary1/index.html

(snip)

"I followed the boys to a place in the road where we couldn't avoid the water. One of the boys carefully set down some rocks as a sort of miniature footbridge for me to step on. Then we skirted the high wall that encircled an unoccupied house opposite the blasted ICRC headquarters. We entered a gate behind the house, and followed along the inside of the wall to a place in the tall grass where the foot lay. The boys held their shirts up over their noses and mouths and pointed. Yes, it was a large man's foot, severed just above the ankle. The force of the blast had catapulted it over the wall surrounding the house, and it had missed detection during yesterday's post-blast cleanup. We stood ringed around the foot, staring at it. After a few minutes, I looked up and nodded my head. The boys nodded and, without a word, led the way out."

- more . . .

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/29/baghdad_diary1/index.html
(graphic image . . .)

[Brucey]

1. Powerful story.

Too bad the people in the US don't know about the atrocities going on. Would they care? Maybe, if it was presented graphically and they had someone tell them what to think. Where are our leaders? We desperately need a Ghandi, King, Kennedy, or Eugene McCarthy to speak for us and lead us. Kudos to the Dem candidates, but they are seen as too partisan and are not given enough media and none of them is catching on as a moral spokesperson. Who will rise to the task?

[veganwitch]

2. remember boys and girls...

amputated body parts means we are winning

*this message brought to you by the Bushco Minitrue*

[maggrwaggr]

3. the opening to the Iraqi version of "Blue Velvet"

"Yes, son, that's a foot all right".

Don't mean to joke,it's all just part of bizarro world that we're living in. Blue Velvet seems absolutely normal compared to this shit.

[JNelson6563]

4. a liberated foot

More proof of our stunning success in Iraq.

Julie