What is he thinking?.....

[leftchick]

He looks about 3 or 4 years old. Look at those eyes...



An Iraqi boy watches as a U.S. Army soldier stands guard at the funeral for 13-year-old Ali Salah, a victim of Sunday's suicide truck bombing in Baghdad July 25, 2005. A suicide truck bomb packed with 500 lbs (220 kg) of explosives blew up near a police station in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, police sources said. (Ali Jasim/Reuters)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. He isn't thinking.

That's a glare of anger and hate.

[SmokingJacket]

2. Um, no. That's just plain sadness.

Though it might well evolve into hatred as he gets older.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Look again. He doesn't even see the man in the uniform. Just the uniform.

There is almost no discernable emotion on his face at all. A blank stare. That uniform and that gun is all he's gonna carry with him, and regardless of who is in the uniform, or who is carrying the weapon, they are the root of his lot in life.

We have made Hussein's memory an almost fond one to a generation of children. And that fondness will become folklore.

[SmokingJacket]

5. I guess we're trying to read minds here, but I still see a sad face.

Of course, I don't disagree that we're planting some terrible seeds in Iraqi children.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. Fair enough :)

My mind reading should be confined to small inanimate objects.

Like W.

[lectrobyte]

6. If I were living there, I'd probably have fond memories of the

"good old days" when there was running water and electricity.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. Indeed.

And the days when women were allowed to be educated.

It's a terrible thing to realize that we have become more hated than a monster like Hussein by the very people we claim to have liberated.

[leftchick]

10. I think he is scared

I believe his eyes show he is frightened of the occupying forces.

[bryant69]

3. Truck bomb, eh?

Well presumably Ali Salah got what was coming to him - I mean are we on the side of the American Occupiers or the Iraqi insurgency?

Bryant
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[Beaver Tail]

8. It's a look of Confusion

He is too young to understand what is really going on and who is truly responsible. He relies on adults to explain to him things he cannot fully appreciate yet.

Yet another victim.

[DS1]

11. He's thinking

"Wow, I can't wait to get psycho-analyzed by the internet juggernaut of truth democraticunderground.com"

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Mission Accomplished!

;)

[matcom]

13. SNAP!!

:rofl:

[SmokingJacket]

15. Yay, I always wanted to be a juggernaut. nt

[Cocoa]

14. cool gun