The picture on cnn.com of the mother and baby is gut wrenching

[hopeisaplace]

I don't know what to say, and it's hard to view this. No words,
flooding tears. I can't hear/read why "war is necessary" anymore.
I just don't want to hear/read it. Look at this picture and tell
it to this mother. As this baby shakes in and out of shock, tell
her war is necessary.

It's right to show this truth though, people need to see the truth.

[tnlefty]

1. Kill'em all, let God sort it out!

There is no longer any reason for peaceful conflict resolution and any act of war can be justified. To hell with the suffering and the human consequences.

If necessary the :sarcasm: thingy.

[uppityperson]

2. thank you CNN for posting these pictures.

maybe peace will come someday. Get this out in the public's eyes please.

[hopeisaplace]

3. yes I agree, I think if more of this was visible on MSM

TV news, that the compassion that people feel for people, would override
everything. Watching Katrina unfold and the Superdome disaster on TV is
total evidence of this. People were outraged about that beyond words.
It was in-your-face news reporting, and we need more of it.

[Pirate Smile]

4. This is it:

TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) -- The last time I sat down to write something, it was about the cost of war. As I looked ahead to the coming days, the last words I wrote were: Who will die?

Today, I found out.

Standing in front of this 8-year-old boy lying in a hospital bed, the "conflict in the Middle East" and the "cost of war" seem endless and suffocating. His pain cannot possibly be imagined as he shakes uncontrollably in and out of shock. He has blood coming from his eyes.

His name is Mahmood Monsoor and he is horribly burned. In the hospital bed next to him is his 8-month-old sister, Maria -- also burned. Screaming at the top of her lungs is the children's mother, Nuhader Monsoor. She is standing over her baby, looking at her son -- and probably thinking of her dead husband. The smell of burned flesh is overwhelming.

This story, for the Monsoor family, started out as a typical one, probably one that most of us have experienced. They had simply gone on a family vacation to some lovely sunny beaches, but these beaches were in southern Lebanon.

The six of them, like thousands of others, were fleeing the fighting -- trying to get north, waving white flags, when an Israeli bomb or missile slammed into their car.

The father, Mohammed Monsoor, was killed instantly. His children all were wounded. His wife, who is now crying over two of the wounded children, was in the best physical condition. But as would be the case for any mother and wife, her life, in many ways, ended the minute the car exploded into flames.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/perry.tyre/index.html

[hopeisaplace]

5. thanks for posting that, I don't know how to do this yet...n/t.

[PA Democrat]

8. How to post a picture:

Right click on the picture you want to post. A drop down menu will appear.

Left click on "Properties".

Copy the Address (URL)

Paste the address in the text of your post, and the picture should appear.

[Maestro]

10. Just a bit of netiquette...

What you described is hot-linking and everytime someone views the pic, it is sucking bandwidth from the source point. A better way is to right click on the image. Save the image to your hard drive. Then go to www.photobucket.com. Open up a free account. Upload the image to your new account. Then cut and paste the img tag URL in your post.

In this manner, you are not using the bandwidth of the photo source.

As far as the picture and story, it is truly disgusting. I'm sick to my stomach thinking about what is happening in our world today. I hope the rest of the family recovers and they probably will, but the emotional scars may be too deep to overcome.

[hopeisaplace]

11. thank you for the info, :), n/t.

[Maestro]

13. Any time. -nt

[w8liftinglady]

14. Thanks from me,too..I'm a web incompetant....

[w8liftinglady]

6. Oh,Dear God...

If that were me,I would be devastated.Why can't these bastards see what they are doing.Do they even care?

[mom cat]

22. Those children don't count. They are not blastocytes!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. the poll on that page could use some help

Should the U.S. call for a cease-fire in the Mideast conflict?

Yes 51% 59559 votes

No 49% 57828 votes

[hopeisaplace]

9. I noticed that as well, thanks n/t.

[leftchick]

21. oh god....

<snip>

Just days earlier, staff at this hospital were moving bodies out to make room for more. Like an assembly line of the dead, unless the bombings stop, they will be doing the same tomorrow.

The city of Tyre has been enduring stories like this for more than a week. Buildings are crumpled; those who have not left are hiding in basements. Those who dare to pack into cars run the risk of ending up like the Monsoor family. Some who move north die on the road. Some stay in basements, and die there. Others hope against hope that the bombs will fall elsewhere -- missing them.

Politics creeps into the ward like the blood that runs on the floors. "Clearly he is Hezbollah," says one of the doctors outside the room -- sarcastically referring to 8-year-old Mahmood, whose screams can be heard from the hallway. His screams now blend with the wails of his mother, matching the baby's cries.

The hospital ward begins to teem with members of the international press. They all have blue flak jackets that say "press" on the front. They carry microphones, cameras, radios and satellite phones, and have local guides to translate.

:cry:

[oberliner]

12. self delete nt

[hopeisaplace]

15. OMG. Just saw the Cnn piece on the Monsoor family, OMG.

Sorry for replying to my own post. But OMG. This is what the media
needs to report on MORE. It's so brutal, so gut wrenching, so sick
so horrible, so disgusting, so inhumane, but the truth needs to be seen.
I'm sick over this. I don't care the nationality of the suffering I just
care that PEOPLE are suffering. It's so sad.

[NMMNG]

16. It's always interesting

The right wing trots mothers and babies across the stage every time they rail against stem cell research or abortion. They clap, they cry, they cheer for the "good" they are doing in stopping the horrible "baby killers".


When a picture like the one on CNN comes up the right wingers denounce it as "liberal emotion mongering" and claim it is "pandering to the terrorists". I guess killing is ok when the "babies" have been expelled from the womb, and particularly when they are non-white.

[NMMNG]

17. Dupe/delete

Itchy trigger finger.

[LeftCoast]

18. There seems to be a marked change in the coverage of this conflict

In the last 24 hours or so it seems like many more of the Lebanese victims are being shown. In the beginning the coverage seemed more about Israel v. Hezbollah, now more about the civilians. :shrug:

[tuvor]

19. Thank God this kind of thing hasn't been happening in Iraq.

Surely CNN would be showing that, too, if it were actually happening.

[Skidmore]

20. Last night on ABC national news, I think, might have been CNN

(but I'm not sure because hubby was switching around alot), there was an article about a lebanese woman who had lost her husband and mother in the bombings. Her young daugher had been injured, but her 9-year-old son was barely hanging on. She was shown with him at his bedside in hospital. That poor child's torso and face were covered in burns and abrasions.


Edit to add: Now that I look closer, this may very well be the same news story I was referring to. My heart breaks for that mother and that child. Pain and suffering and death delivered by anonymous people from the sky. But then again, those missiles may very well have been personalized with signatures on them.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. This are the pictures with the kids hit by phosphorous?