This is Just Fucked Up!

[leftchick]

totally....

:cry:


http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/070916/photos_wl_afp/67d8476e1300a2c95fdd35739b2c788e





A woman cries as she holds the body of her son, who was killed by gunmen, in a hospital morgue in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad September 16, 2007. Gunmen killed one person and wounded another from one family in Baquba on Sunday, police said. REUTERS/Helmiy al-Azawi (IRAQ)

[trumad]

1. Thanks George.

[NanceGreggs]

2. The bottom photo ...

I was immediately reminded of the pietas depicted in Christianity, the grieving Madonna embracing her dead son for the last time as he's taken down from the cross.

An innocent, brutally murdered.

Of course, those fine 'christians' who support this war will never notice the resemblance ...

[leftchick]

8. of course they won't

he is "brown". :cry:

[NanceGreggs]

9. And so was Jesus ...

... but that's another fact they don't want to hear about.

[bvar22]

17. American Jesus

[HysteryDiagnosis]

21. So wasn't their "example"

[truedelphi]

11. "Those fine Christians" don't even realize that

According to most Christians in Baghdad before the bombing, Iraq was the best place in the Muslim world for Christians to live.

Of Course, now those Iraqi Christians are equally maimed killed refugee-ed etc.

Thanks to King George who talks to jesus!

[FloridaJudy]

25. I've always been struck

By how many of the iconic photos have been pietas. The images of grief and death are universal - how sad that this country's government are responsible for so many.

[H2O Man]

29. Good call.

You are on target.

[gateley]

31. So true about the resemblance to pietas. This is breathtaking in its message. nt

[NanceGreggs]

33. Yes, it truly is.

[angstlessk]

3. Why are journalists so bad with english?..maybe it was an Iraqi journalist whom I would forgive!

but the implication is he was killed in the morgue "...holds the body of her son, who was killed by gunmen, in a hospital morgue..." I know she was holding him in the morgue, he was not killed in the morgue, but I think writing is too sloppy now days!

edit: I watched on C-Span Book TV- a brother and sister writers- he wrote 'Collapse' regarding societies and she wrote some fiction book about women who garner revenge (forgot the name) but they talked about how they used to have to diagram sentences when they were in school. Had this sentence been diagrammed it would prove the child was killed in the morgue.

[Fierce]

4. Photographers often write the cutlines...

...and looking at the photographer's name and English usage, I'm guessing perhaps English was not the first language.

[angstlessk]

7. Like I said, if he was not an English speaker I could understand, but usually

non English speakers are better at English than we are!

[Solly Mack]

5. Dear Mr President....

like he even cares

far too many don't care

Damn it all...

[uppityperson]

6. k&r

[snappyturtle]

10. There are no words.

Remember when * said, in last Thursday's speech, that if we pull out a humanitarian crisis would ensue? What is THIS?

[WindRavenX]

12. Clearly, freedom is on the march

:sarcasm:

:cry:

[superkia]

13. A vote for a anti war candidate is the way out of this mess.

If not we will just move the killing of innocent people to Iraq or Syria. And when the next president that we vote in continues war for profit, we will sit back and blame them instead of ourselves for putting them in their position to do so. I don't understand the majority of Americans logic?

Congress gave bush a loaded weapon and stocked him with ammo when he asked for it and we blame bush? Now we support candidates that took part in that and when they do it again as president, it will be too late.

[formercia]

14. Everyone killed was somebody's baby.

War sucks.

[Bluerthanblue]

23. you said it-

well.

Even those who have no mom to mourn them.

MLK said:

"Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We must see this, believe this, and live by it if we are to remain awake through a great revolution.

--Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution


until we truly understand this, there will never be true and lasting peace.

[malaise]

15. Fucked up is euphemism

:cry: :cry:

[never_get_over_it]

16. And multiply this by ONE MILLION

and that is HOW FUCKED UP it is....

[Control-Z]

18. I don't think I could go on

if that were my son. I don't understand how anyone can look at people suffering and not feel their pain.

Every picture I see just tears up my heart.

[leftchick]

20. my younger son looks to be his age

this breaks my heart.

:cry:

[calimary]

34. Boy, that is for sure.

I think about that fairly frequently. What if it were MY son? MY daughter? I remember the first time my then-Cub Scout took part in the annual Decoration of the Graves for the Memorial Day weekend - in which thousands of Boy, Girl, Cub, and Daisy Scouts participated, how every one of those headstones was someone's child, someone's true love, someone's heart. Some mother cried over EVERY ONE of those. Made me cry, too. Still does. War is only good for the grave-digger business and the war profiteers.

[Control-Z]

38. I cry a lot

Inappropriately, in some eyes. It's ok. I haven't turned off my heart as they have.

[The Cleaner]

19. Hey people this is WAR! People are going to die & get hurt. GET OVER IT!

:sarcasm:

I cannot believe some conservatives still say this - cold and callous doesn't even begin to explain it.

[tnlefty]

30. What I truly can't believe is that they use the excuse of a

humanitarian crisis as a reason for staying! WTF, did they not realize that people were underneath the bombs of Shock and Disgust? :crazy:

[Vinca]

22. Heartbreaking. If there was a hell, it would be renamed George Bush. nt

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. Another innocent sacrificed to greed

damnit. just damnitall. :mad:

:cry:

[renie408]

26. Fucked up indeed. This mother cries for that mother. n/t

[spanone]

27. another 'small price'

:grouphug:

[Kajsa]

28. His death and countless others

are all for " promoting freedom and democracy"
in a country that wants us to get the hell out of there!

This mother cries for his mother and all the mothers
of victims of this war.

:cry:

[PinkyisBlue]

32. This is too sad.

If you have the DVD of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911", it has some special features at the end of the movie about the victims of "Shock and Awe" that will make you cry. The children victims are the ones that bring me to tears. Anyone who has a child of his/her own can't help but be affected by these images (and even those who don't have a child). This is why the media doesn't show these images.

This war sucks.

[Swamp Rat]

35. .

:cry:

[Toucano]

36. Totally fuckin' sucks! n/t

[trusty elf]

37. Heartbreaking