The Reason We Fight

Yahoo News ^ | 4/7/03 | Self

[My2Cents]

God bless the Iraqi people.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Please forward these photos to Janeane Garofalo, ASAP. I believe she owes the President an apology.

[Enterprise]

Smile. You're on candid freedom camera.

[kimoajax]

Appear a whole lot more genuine than those staged by Saddam henchmen.

[Steven W.]

That would require a heart and a brain and, like so many liberals, all she has is a mouth.

[Kevin Curry]

Never has a photo been more perfectly composed and cropped for use as a Time magazine cover.

The chances of the leftist rag doing that are nil.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

 

Mon Apr 7, 2:22 PM ET

An unidentified Iraqi girl makes the thumb up sign after receiving a package (front) of food rations from US troops crossing the Basra-Baghdad highway in central Iraq (news - web sites) on the way to the Iraqi capital(AFP/Christophe Simon)

[roderick]

Suck it up NYT, Wash Post, San Fran Chron, Atlanta . . .

[Kevin Curry]

Poignant, beautiful photo as well. I am printing many of these great photos, framing them, and putting them on the walls in my office.

[annyokie]

Beautiful pictures! Not unlike Viet Nam.

[jbg]

As wonderful as this is for Iraqis to be freed from Saddam, it is incidental to the reason we are fighting. Our soldiers are fighting there, so we don't all have to go around here at home in MOPP suits and with a gas mask on our side.

[seams2me]

pic #3, far upper right:

HEY, IT LOOKS LIKE TYNE DALY STAYED AS A HUMAN SHIELD AFTER ALL! ROFL !!!!

[roderick]

It is said that when you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. When 'Nam was the defining period of your life . . .

[Illbay]

Oh, I thought it was going to be "Belly Girl".

[My2Cents]

True, but the name of the effort is "Operation Iraqi Freedom," not "Operation Nix the MOPP Suit."

[annyokie]

I was in Junior High during Viet Nam.

[najida]

It is the hugs that are getting me....I am squalling here.

[annyokie]

Me, too. Bless those people and our troops!

[jbg]

Yes, for politically correct sensibilities "Operation Iraqi Freedom" sounds a lot better than "Operation Kill the Bastards Before They Kill Us." But if freeing other people from oppressive regimes is a reason to go to war we are going to be busy for a long time.

[roderick]

Okay, so how are they "not unlike Vietnam"?