[RedBloodedAmerican]

1. He did not say it was his friends brother in the photo. He said it was sent to him by a friend who has a brother over there.

2. He did not say it was taken by his friends brother. He said it was sent to him in email by a friend of his.

2. He said it was sent to him by his friend in email, and did not take credit, or give credit, for the photo.

If a friend of yours sent you an email with the only thing in it this:

http://www.ryano.net/iraq/img/1/139084.jpg

and you clicked the link, saw the photo and you thought it was funny and worth posting on a thread of it's own, would you post it? Oh, and forgot to mention; your friends brother is somewhere in Iraq. So now all of a sudden you are guilty of some crime?

Unbelievable.

So now if anyone wants to post a picture, they have to name the exact author of it? Good grief. He did not take or give credit for it, he only said a friend sent it to him.

[katnip]

So, do you usually piss off this many people by merely posting?

What a bunch of grumps here this weekend!

[HighWheeler]

I'm talking about full disclosure.

The image didn't come from an e-mail, the LINK did. This may seem to be a small point, but it has significance. For instance, when Headache posted this, there was clearly an FR box to insert the source, which in this case is the weblink. Instead he stated the source as "mail" and himself as the author.

Also, a website that ends in ".net" is unusual, then to have to go 4 layers deep into the bowels of image storage is not your average lighthearted, casual image source.

These obvious and FR-required disclosures would have let all of us in on the joke. The site didn't get credit for producing the image until many of us started to dig.