OUR Soldiers (PHOTOS that bush* doesn't want you to see) GRAPHIC !

[diamond14]

Demand that bush* support OUR troops....and BRING THEM HOME NOW !!!




MOSUL, IRAQ: 24th Infantry Regiment give first aid to injured soldiers, seconds after a roadside bomb was blown up in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 10 January 2005.
Photographer:MAURICIO LIMA
Agency: AFP/Getty Images
Photo Date: 10 January 2005



MOSUL, IRAQ: 24th Infantry Regiment give first aid to injured soldiers, seconds after a roadside bomb was blown up in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 10 January 2005. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo Date: 10 January 2005

[beam me up scottie]

1. jesus christ.

someone needs to show these on a big screen at ALL of the inagural balls.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Too bad our side doesn't have a skilled hacker

who could do this.

This would be a "Minority Report" moment.

The film "Minority Report".

[diamond14]

11. perhaps they could flash some of these up on the big screens (link)

"I'm this great picture of the Army."

SPC. JOSE MARTINEZ, 20, 101st Airborne, was injured April 5, 2003 in Karbala when the humvee he was driving hit a land mine. Martinez was trapped in the explosion and suffered massive burns to his face, head and body. He has spent the last year in surgery and recovery at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. Photographed April 3, 2004 at his home in Dalton, Georgia,while on a brief hospital leave.





Blind and Brain-Damaged

PFC Randall Clunen, 19, 101st Airborne, stationed in Tal Afar, was pulling guard December 8, 2003 when a suicide bomber broke through security and exploded himself and his vehicle. Chunks of shrapnel ripped into Clunen's face. Photographed at home Salem, Ohio February 14, 2004.



Spc. Sam Ross, 21, combat engineer, 82nd Airborne Division, was injured May 18, 2003 in Baghdad when a bomb blew up during a munitions disposal operation. He is blind and an amputee. Photographed in the woods near his trailer where he lives alone in Dunbar Township, Pennsylvania October 19, 2003.



more...from "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq"
bush* DISPOSABLE HEROES....
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/purplehearts_intro.html

[Contrary1]

24. They would just consider the violence

as "proof" that we need to be in Iraq. It's painfully obvious
after four years of Shrub, that they only see what he tells
them they are seeing.

[hangemhigh]

2. God help our kids over there.

God help the Iraqis.

HOMEPAGE. EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS.

[bpilgrim]

4. more...

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery

peace

[diamond14]

14. Hi bpilgrim ! hope you don't mind, I borrowed one of your 'little'

photos to add to my posts above....OK????


thought it made the perfect point, as OUR soldiers suffer and bush* party's hardy...

[bpilgrim]

17. Thank GORE he 'INVENTED' the INTERNET's!

take all you want... they belong to the net and us netizens ;->

:hi:

peace

[Clark2008]

21. Who is that little boy?

Seriously... how can I find him. If I can, I would like to adopt him.

My ex is Arabic and Muslim. I know the religion. I know the culture. He won't make it over there. The fear in his eyes. I want to adopt this child and give him a better life. I'm not rich, but I'm guessing... oh, this is stupid. I'm a single Mom. No one would let me adopt him.

Tears are rolling down my face. He looks so much like my son. Poor baby.

I don't know what else to say.

[diamond14]

23. this little infant ???...hurt by our troops in Falluja (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

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[bpilgrim]

31. there're so many

:cry:

:huggs:

peace

[0007]

34. Great photos!

[Midlodemocrat]

47. My God.

Those pictures are horrific. How in the name of God do we justify doing that to our sons and daughters and the people of Iraq. I am weeping now going through those photos.

Great work, BTW.

[bpilgrim]

51. they are hard to look at

but the truth must be known... it is our only hope :cry:

peace

[Bluebear]

5. As we "quietly" stop hunt for WMD's and plan the inaugural balls

WTF is WRONG with people? Does NO Bush voter care?

[Swamp Rat]

6. BRING THEM HOME NOW! n/t

[zann725]

32. Absolutely!

They're all gonna be so wacked-out! (Those that survive.) And that doesn't even factor-in all those missing arms and legs, etc. And no jobs awaiting them when they come home...particularly as a Disabled...since ADA protection was long-since dismantled by the Repugs. So that anyone with a Disability in a workplace, essentially does NOT have to be accomodated.

[Gay Ranger]

7. Last year...

One of those bleeding soldiers was my daughter. 11 years ago, it was me. Hurt worse when it was my girl.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I am so sorry *hugs*

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Save this nation one town, county, and state at a time!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm#why

[Gay Ranger]

13. I Will Never, EVER...

speak ill of our troops. I was one of them, I bled with them, shed tears on the caskets of too many friends. Sadly, my daughter has done the same thing. I respect them and support them. The mission may be flawed, the CIC is a dumbass, but the troops are not the ones who make policy. They are not there fighting for Bush. Soldiers never fight for their country once they are in combat. They do not fight for their CIC. They fight for each other.

[MADem]

19. WELL SAID

I'm right beside you with the same sentiments!

[diamond14]

20. my cousin was KILLED in Vietnam....Navy HM3, Silver Star, Purple Heart

19 years old....it really broke my heart when reTHUGlicans degraded John Kerry's Silver Star and Purple Heart....because THAT degradation hit us hard...degraded the whole process, and ALL who recieved those medals, ever....


both my Dad (WWII) and my Uncle (Korea) got Purple Hearts for war injuries, and when they saw the reTHUGlicans prancing around their convention with BANDAID purple hearts, MOCKING all who ever received war injuries, we were SHOCKED !!!!


my nephew is currently in the Marines in Iraq....I often wonder if reTHUGlicans will MOCK his medals too.....

[Gay Ranger]

25. My Daughter Was Awarded a Purple Heart...

she had been awarded a Bronze Star (one of very few women to recieve that award) a short time before she was wounded. She pulled two soldiers from a burning vehicle. She and I live with my parents. I was spending so much time here caring for them, I sold my house and moved in. On our mantle are three Bronze Stars and three Purple Hearts. One for each generation living in our home. My father's (Korea), Mine (Somalia) and my daughter's (Iraq). Anyone who ever calls my family unpatriotic because of our politics would justifiably be punched in the mouth.

[diamond14]

26. so just like my family, you must have felt just terrible listening to

the reTHUGlicans mock John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts...that mockery of a soldier's medals was just horrifying to me....my aunt broke down several times just thinking about her dead son and his medals....

did you feel horrible too?

[Gay Ranger]

28. I really felt insulted...

when civilians who never served said something about it. I felt that O'Neil was out of line but I felt that since he was there he at least had some justification (misguided though it was). O'Neil was a veteran also. I felt it was beneath him and the other to make their fight with Kerry so public. Kind of like airing dirty family laundry in public. While Kerry was dimished in the eyes of a lot of people over this, O'Neil did not do himself or other vets any favors with his actions.

When I was awarded my Bronze Star, it was for braving enemy fire to drag a wounded Ranger from the open to cover. I was already wounded and so was my best friend. We ran out there together and dragged him back. I was awarded a Bronze Star, my buddy was awarded an Army Comendation Medal with a "V" designation. Lets say that ten years from now I run for office and he had felt slighted at recieving a lesser award for taking part in the same action I did. He would not be right, but in his mind he would feel justified in trying to bismirch my reputation.

O'Neil was wrong with what he did to Kerry. I recognize that he served, faced the same bullets and rockets that Kerry did. I find that just commendable as Kerry's own actions in Vietnam. He was no less a hero. But why did he have to be such an asshole afterwards?:grr:

[diamond14]

30. thank you for your service...and WELCOME to DU !!!!

I just noticed that you are a NEW person here...so WELCOME !!
We're glad you joined us...there's a LOT of military and military families who post here.....we all support OUR troops...but most of us are against bush* wars....


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[DemoVet]

9. While they're at it, let them show this, too

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/01467.htm
It's titled "The Children of Iraq"
I managed to scroll down through the wounded children but had to stop when they started showing the dead. I kept seeing my own children. I can hear the rightists saying that those deaths may have been caused by insurgents but whose incompetence allowed that to take place?

Hey neocons, hey Faux News, hey Judith Miller, hey SCLM, hey republicans, hey go-along Democrats, hey to all of you morons who voted to keep this going: have you managed to scrub that blood off your hands yet? Here's some more for you.

[EC]

10. There has got to be a way to get these and some like these on the

big screen in Times Square...how do they decide what is shown there? Is time purchased?

[imax2268]

12. Take a good look George...

Take a good fucking look you evil bastard...look at what your lies have done...

[shawcomm]

49. Hell, he probably looks at them every chance he gets...

just to get off.

[For PaisAn]

15. All the photos in this post are devastating

What Bush has done is criminal and evil.

[aaronbees]

16. good lord,

Those combat pics are frightening. You'll never see those in American newspapers, unfortunately. :mad:

[alexisfree]

18. NO WMD sorry about all the dead and wounded. The suprising

part is americans are just taking up the a$$ over and over without dinner.

[mhr]

22. I Read Somewhere The Bush "Gets Off" On This Kind Of Stuff

We all know he was a cheerleader - someone who likes to watch from the sidelines instead of participate - his Guard service record proved this.

[xpunkisneatx]

27. WTF is this pic about???

Something tells me the Iraqi boys don't know what is written on that cardboard...

[LynnTheDem]

29. They didn't.

Some of the troops had blasts doing that to Iraqis, writing crap in English & taking pics of them holding the signs.

Troops got told to stop doing this; didn't look good when the pics made the UK media.

Here's info on this particular incident;

Marines to inform reservist of probe into Internet photograph

http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2822292.php

[Tacos al Carbon]

52. I had read that this might have been photoshopped

but I'm not sure.

[franksumatra]

33. these images should be on billboards and t.v. screens

americans should be forced to view these images every day. but they are hidden, as if they are something to be ashamed of.

support the troops doesn't even mean anything anymore

[newyawker99]

36. Hi franksumatra!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[franksumatra]

39. thank you newyawker

love this site!

[0007]

35. When will American people wise up?

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable."
U.S. historian Howard Zinn, 1993

[spanone]

37. Death for non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction

Thanks you sorry son of a bitch for president.

[Name removed]

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[franksumatra]

40. maybe YOU should be ashamed to pay taxes for this crap

showing these graphic pictures is exactly what america needs now. the ugly truth.

[Bridget Burke]

41. You should be ashamed....

You've got blood on your hands for supporting your little ignorant lying twerp of a president.

[American Tragedy]

44. We've tried being delicate and academic for several years now

but human beings are full of defense mechanisms and self-deception. Sometimes, they just need to be slapped in the face with reality, especially when the truth is as unbearably ugly as this! Words alone do not begin to do justice to the images here.

[leftchick]

45. war isn't a stinking video game!

you should be ashamed to not look at the results of an Illegal Unethical War. Amerika needs to wake the fuck up and see the devastation brought by bush*.

[kentuck]

42. Censorship, pure and simple...

Why isn't the media and press showing these photos to the people? They only want to show the "good" things that are happening, I suppose?

[franksumatra]

43. iraq is gonna clear up, put on a happy face

i love that repub mantra, 'why doesn't the media ever show the good news out of iraq?' WHAT good news?

[GoldenOldie]

48. Babs Bush Mentality - don't disturb the beautiful CON mind.

Don't mind filling the crapper, just don't want to look at what they produced.

WWII, war journalists/potog's were up close and personnel and had no problems sending back and the papers had no problems with showing the public what was actually happening. It was horrible for 7 & 8 years and on up to look at, but it made us more aware as we walked by a home and viewed a a little flag with a blue star and a little flag with a gold star hanging from a window. It made us more aware that when the air-raid sirens blew and we had to ensure that all the lights were out and the windows darkened that somewhere else in the world children and families were in more danger of actual bombs killing falling and killing them.

[American Tragedy]

46. No wonder Bush can't endure the direct gaze of the public

during his coronation.

The eyes of America are upon you, you cannot get away.

[Is It Fascism Yet]

50. Just say no to perma wars

Don't go. Don't let your kids go. Just say no.