A picture is worth how many lives?

[sce56]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071021/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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Iraqi police and hospital officials, who often overstate casualties, reported only 15 deaths including three children. Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said all the dead were civilians. Al-Dabbagh said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, had met with the U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, to protest the action. He was speaking on CNN.

Associated Press photos showed the bodies of two toddlers, one with a gouged face, swaddled in blankets on a morgue floor. Their shirts were pulled up, exposing their abdomens, and a diaper showed above the waistband of one boy's shorts. Relatives said the children were killed when helicopter gunfire hit their house as they slept.

One local resident said some of the casualties were people sleeping on roofs to seek relief from the heat and lack of electricity. The Iraqi officials said 52 were wounded in the raid on the sprawling district.

The U.S. military said it was not aware of any civilian casualties, and the discrepancy in the death tolls and accounts of what happened could not be reconciled. American commanders reported no U.S. casualties.



Yes we are winning the hearts and minds! :sarcasm:

[Horse with no Name]

1. We know these are photoshopped

Because brown people are evil and don't cry when their kids are hurt or killed.

[sce56]

3. I sure hope it was sarcasam you were using

An uncle of 2-year-old Ali Hamid said the boy was killed and his parents seriously wounded when helicopter gunfire pierced the wall and windows of their house as they slept indoors. It does not look like a wounded parent carrying the dead toddler.


Ahmed Abd Ameer holds the mattress where his young nephew, Ali, died after an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Backed by air power, U.S. forces targeting militants believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of two coalition soldiers raided the main Shiite district in Baghdad on Sunday. Iraqi officials said at least 13 people were killed, including women and children. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

[Horse with no Name]

4. I would think that would go without saying.... n/t

[gateley]

2. I often think that if all the citizens of our country had to sit down and watch

even just a short video on the realities in Iraq, there would be NO support for the "surge".

That and a video of waterboarding.

It's been too easy to keep it all in the abstract with Bush's manipulation of the media.

[Cetacea]

5. That is it in a nutshell. n/t

It started with Bush1. They learned from the Vietnam war what a picture is worth.

[lligrd]

6. If Only More Americans Saw Pictures Like These

Well, I guess there is a "good" reason they are being hidden from us.

[TahitiNut]

7. Our newspapers prefer photos of Britney's crotch.

:puke:

[Quantess]

8. I appreciate photo threads. (eom)