Posted on 06/09/2006 4:53:34 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Photo of al-Zarqawi's head framed like a venerated image, or war trophy
WASHINGTON - The frame surrounding an image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head, revealed to the world as proof the terrorist is dead, is bizarre. When the picture was displayed at a U.S. military news briefing, Zarqawi's face was seen inside what appeared to be a professional photographic mat job, with a large frame, as if it were something one might preserve and hang on the wall next to other family portraits. One function of frames is to bound an image, and close down its open edges; frames delimit, both physically and by extension, metaphorically. But that was the last thing this frame was doing.
Even as the news was greeting a sleepy America, bursting forth on the morning talk programs and racing around the Internet, the meaning of Zarqawi's death was anything but closed. Virtually no one outside the Iraqi insurgency and other jihadists thought his death was a bad thing, though reports came in that members of Zarqawi's Jordanian family, who had publicly distanced themselves from the killer after he brought his violence to hotels in Amman, were grieving.
In this country, a familiar dynamic played out. Supporters of the war cheered, and criticized the war's opponents (by now a sizable majority of Americans) if they didn't cheer, too. More cautious voices broached the idea -- though at the peril of having their patriotism questioned -- that this may not be the desired turning point in the conflict. They reminded us that we had already seen similar photographs of Uday and Qusay, Saddam Hussein's dead sons, and that Saddam's capture was also supposed to be the beginning of the end of the mayhem.
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Nonsense. Every wack job Leftist from the author of this article to Harry Reid in the US Senate thought it was a bad thing. NO one on the Left has come out and cheered this. Another bit of proof how the American Left only cares about their own political agrandizement. What is good for the USA is BAD for them in their minds. What scum.
in a war i'm thinking that a martyr can do less harm than a man with a bomb
boy! the left sure had to dig deep to find this to complain about didn't they?
Dig deep and wax eloquent! Such refined sentiment from the Wa Po. I have never read it but do you imagine they use such words in describing the latest drive-by or reality-show or ... phaugh!
MSM, dead men walking. Won't fall over soon enough for me.
Fixed it.
Iraqis celebrate ......
while the traitorous MSM mourns.
That picture is strange. He doesn't look like he just died.
Since our Military has framing equipment at many training facilities there's a good chance one of our men or women in uniform are the one's who did the framing and matting.
I know for a fact our military has many computerized Mat cutters.
I guess they can take this statement as a compliment. ;-D
No matter what had been done, this head up the hindy idiot would have nit picked something to whine about.
Let's just be grateful that neither the Washington Post or the New York Times got wind that the troops had a lead on finding Zarqawi. If they had, they would have published on the front page just where the troops were and where they expected to find him. It is a sad state of affairs when the biggest traitors in our midst are our own press.
What a little wuss. It must really suck to be a liberal.
Tell me Katie didn't wear Black yesterday!
What are you talking about? Yesterday you yourself were saying how this could prove to be a bad thing for us. Why change your story now?
They said on the news that they had to clean his face up a bit before they could take a pic suitable for public viewing.
It never ceases to amaze me--just when I convince myself that the major media has absolutely sunk as low as they can possibly get, they come up with yet another disgusting piece of horse manure that proves they haven't reached bottom yet.
Fortunately, their ratings and circulation numbers are following the same trend, right to the bottom.
Dude, check this out. Remember my photo caption from yesterday about the frame/matting?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645609/posts?page=32#32
I do, however, give him credit for a very careful, penetrating, thoughtful analysis of the situation and its implication to the war on terror:
The picture frame was ugly!!!!
And journalists wonder why they are despised.
Hilarious. Check this out. Yesterday there was a "caption this pic" thread of the media looking at the framed zarqawi pic. i provided the following caption:
"Nice frame, but I don't like the matting."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645609/posts?page=32#32
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