Silly me. I thought they were referring to this one.
Posted on 05/07/2011 3:47:41 AM PDT by Cardhu
MOSUL Iraq — Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war.
“My brother was sick, and we were taking him to the hospital and on the way back, this happened,” Samar said. “We just heard bullets.
“My mother and father were killed, just like that.”
The image of Samar, then 5 years old, screaming and splattered in blood after American soldiers opened fire on her family’s car in the northern town of Tal Afar in January 2005, illuminated the horror of civilian casualties and has been one of the few images from this conflict to rise to the pantheon of classic war photography. The picture has gained renewed attention as part of a large body of work by Chris Hondros, the Getty Images photographer recently killed on the front lines in Misurata, Libya.
The photograph of Samar is frozen in history, but her life moved on, across a trajectory that is emblematic of what so many Iraqis have endured. In a country whose health care system has almost no ability to treat the psychological aspects of trauma, thousands of Iraqis are left alone with their torment.
Now a striking 12-year-old, Samar lives on the outskirts of Mosul in a two-story house with four other families, mostly relatives.
The household is a cramped bustle of activity as women cook and clean and children scramble about. Samar’s older sister, Intisar, and her husband, an unemployed former police officer, care for her. Two of his sons are policemen, and their salaries support the extended family.
The pains of war have been visited on thousands of Iraqis, but even here Samar’s story stands apart.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
By this photo I meant the iconic photo of Samar Hassan as a child
How many photos of the victims of old Saddam’s slaughter, raping and pillaging of his own people did the New York Times ever run.
Silly me. I thought they were referring to this one.
The NYSlimes is 100% directed by the current occupant in this white house.
Suddenly it is important to denigrate our military in the face of their heroic actions in the takedown of OBL.
There is something extremely sinister going on with regard to this saga.
I am now convinced that O went to meet with the SEALs to deliver a message.
Pray for our troops.
Grow up - the death of the photographer in Misrata Libya is justification enough.
These people go to war with only a camera while you sit at home typing, USA, USA, USA, people like you make me and the whole world sick.
And the NY Times decided to cover a story American soldiers were the “bad guys”. No surprise.
“In a country whose health care system has almost no ability to treat the psychological aspects of trauma, thousands of Iraqis are left alone with their torment. “
Where was the treatment of “psychological aspects of trauma”
when Saddam was torturing, maiming & killing his own people for decades?? How about all the kids in the children’s prisons? How about the kids who had parents taken off, killed and dumped in the mass graves?
Where’s the NY Times article on all the Iraqi children and adults who’ve been helped by our soldiers?
Sinister is exactly what came to my mind with this story. Strange now isn't it that a soldier is in the same picture as the little girl. I cannot even begin to imagine what was going on in his mind.
Whatever message he delivered somebody else wrote it for him to say. He is a 'thinker'-in-chief according to what we have been told in some of the many ever changing reports.
If is any indication of his work's subject matter then I am having a hard time feeling a sense of loss.
Yes YOU are sick.
Considering how many on FR were uncritically swallowing the AFN happy talk press releases, this pic probably should have been even more prominent back then. Would have made the dire situation on the ground in Iraq evident to conservatives. It wasn’t and it was only until we lost control of Congress in 06 did folks grasp how badly things were going over there.
People are taking issue, because of the body of work that Chris Hondros produced, the NY Times chose to focus on one that made our soldiers the bad guys.
(not that I’ve seen many of his pics that made our soldiers the good guys)
I missed all the 'happy talk press releases'. See now I had a sibling that served in the Gulf War, and war is HELL. And I remember the leftist demanding a 'peace' dividend after Gulf War and the self identified commies system went belly UP. Then old bjClintons decimated our military. And I was gut sick every time there was a homicide bomb going off and old Saddam was using his ill gotten oil sales to reward the families of the homicide bomber.
IT was our commie led leftist that allowed the old butcher of Babylon to slaughter, terrorize, rape and pillage his own people under their UN program of 'oil for rotten food'.
Your agreement with the leftist mentality says maybe you would be more comfortable bashing our military someplace else.
Oh, so now you speak for the whole world? I think not. You are only about the seven billionth person to find out that war is hell and that people are killed and traumatized. Deal with it, buttercup. Some don't make it out of the womb, killed by their own parents, some are born with horrible disease or disfigurement. The world is not fair or kind and this picture does nothing to me but reinforce what I already knew. You can lay the the death of this child's parents squarely at the feet of that murderous barbarian, Saddam Hussein.
Anti war is anti America
I never thought the 'war' ever went well. We did NOT loose the Congress over the war. We lost congress because the 'morals' voters were Folyized. Lord McCain and his teleprompter programmer Billy the Kristol did their part in making sure that everybody and his brother knew just how bad things were going.
Of course.
Many thanx to your son and his buddies.
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