Posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:01 AM PDT by ElderEdda
Iraq: The unseen war The grim reality of Iraq rarely appears in the American press. This photo gallery reveals the war's horrible human toll.
Editor's note: The following photo gallery contains graphic and shocking images of death and devastation in Iraq.
Aug. 23, 2005 This is a war the Bush administration does not want Americans to see. From the beginning, the U.S. government has attempted to censor information about the Iraq war, prohibiting photographs of the coffins of U.S. troops returning home and refusing as a matter of policy to keep track of the number of Iraqis who have been killed. President Bush has yet to attend a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.
To be sure, this see-no-evil approach is neither surprising nor new. With the qualified exception of the Vietnam War, when images of body bags appeared frequently on the nightly news, American governments have always tightly controlled images of war. There is good reason for this. In war, a picture really is worth a thousand words. No story about a battle, no matter how eloquent, possesses the raw power of a photograph.
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2: It's obvious he's been there for some time because of the blood flow.
3: Squad members would never leave a soldier lying there "that long" and with his weapon unsecured.
4: And there just happens to be a photog there to capture this?
5: What proves this was even in Fallujah or Iraq for that matter? And, what's with the heart on the cabinet?
In the captions, notice the use of the words "suspected" and "alleged" applies to "insurgents", but more absolute and definitive terms are applied to the U.S. "Four siblings were playing outside their homes when a U.S. cluster bomb exploded." The U.S. doesn't get the benefit of the doubt--no "alleged cluster bomb" for the Americans.
How do we know cluster bombs were dropped as one of the photo's state. Cluster bombs are usually dropped with an armor-piercing or high explosive bomblet, and the body in the image of the small girl, remains remarkably intact for being hit by a cluster bomb.
IBTZ!!
hmm welcome to FR
So u signed up on FR just to post this huh?
It's a Zot... Salon... Just signed up... ZaP!
Look whose talking:
anti-infidel
Since Aug 28, 2005
lol
How is it a zot?
Look at what he wrote in his message...
The MSM sure didn't report much from Klinton's War in Bosnia did they? And had no complaints either. Almost a really secret war.
Why?
Yes, war is ugly. We all know that.
Are you saying all these photos, are phoney?.........not likely.
So I repeat, what is your real point? why did you decide this was something we either needed to see or wanted to see?
Before the Zot?
Welcome to FR...I think.
strange first post...from Salon at that.
War is hell...what's your point ?
in before the ZOT ?
Look at what he wrote in his message...
Your right.... upon further review... May not be a zot... Got an itchy trigger finger. Sorry
The point is, which I thought was obvious, was that some of the images looked staged. Just because a caption states something as "fact" doesn't mean it is. The entire expose of the "Unseen War" did little to bring the war into sight, but rather exposed the continued anti-American slant of Salon, its editors and photo conspirators.
Yes, war is ugly. What's your point?
Methinks the press is starting to get worried that they're losing readership. With the abundance of information about the war on the internet, they have a lot of catching up to do. The trouble is, they still want to sip mint julips poolside at the Bagdad Hotel. Hence, the staged photos.
But ya gotta go to Savages page to see the beheadings---that the MSM will never show
I will vouch for your point #3 and regarding the cluster bombs.
The "soldier" lying dead has been proven to be a dead isuragent that was dressed in a captured uniform and a capture m16 these were captured earlier in the war.
As for the damage that cluster bombs do to the human body. They are devestating a small child would be all but shreaded (sorry for the graphic commentary) that picture is not of a child that was hit by a cluster bomb. ( I worked with cluster bombs in the service and i am familiar with that damage they cause.)
Salon on the other hand I have no faith in the accuracy of their reporting or their bias or lack there of.
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