would photos of kids with their brains blown out on t.v. slow the war down

[mopaul]

i know, we don't want that on t.v. while we're eating.

i don't like to see such horrors either, but today, on DU, i forced myself to. i survived it, and it further resolved my hatred of war.

is that what it will take?

look at it people! look at it and realize YOU sanctioned it with your tax dollars.

sure, there are corpses in the streets of new orleans, alabama and mississippi, but there are pieces of people laying around baghdad like so much meat.

LOOK AT IT GODDAMNIT!

[Mutley]

1. I did.

:puke: :cry: :banghead:

[MrSlayer]

2. Only if they were American kids.

Otherwise no.

[buff2]

3. I couldn't make it through all those links

I just couldn't handle it. It makes me hate repukes even more now because THEY are the warmongers. Too bad they all can't meet the same fate....especially chimpy. :grr:


I went to bed crying last night. My heart was aching for all those people. Those pics were the worst I've ever seen.:cry:

[cassiepriam]

4. Nope, not one iota

Nothing, nothing at all seems to matter to the american people, except maybe the price of gas. That seems to get their attention.

[nonconformist]

5. As disturbing, sad and even morbid as it may seem

I think it's absolutely necessary to show the horrors of war. Otherwise, it's just some 'video game' and people can put it out of their minds and out of their conscious. It's hard to put dead children out of your mind.

If a country is at war, the people of that country need to see what that entails. What the consequences are. Not just statistics.

9/11 affected people so deeply because we saw it go down on live TV. The Katrina aftermath affected people so deeply because we saw it go down on live TV. Abu Ghraib would have been completely ignored if it wasn't for the photographic evidence. This country apparently needs strong visuals to get worked up over anything.

[Im with Rosey]

7. I think you are right

I don't think the absolute horrors will ever been shown, I wish someone would have the spine to do, but not going to happen.

[ewagner]

9. You reminded me

of an episode from the old M.A.S.H. series about a fighter pilot who was shot down and bailed out and was being treated at the MASH unit....

he talked on and on about how the war wasn't much of a hardship...get up, brief, fly the mission, drop the bombs from 30,000 feet and be home for lunch...

then the MASH surgeons showed him the horror of war....it changed his attitude of course.

To some extent the American public is like that too....no pictures, no story....maybe gory photos would tell the story.

[leftofthedial]

6. not if they have brown skin or a foreign-sounding name

this is Murka

[Jacobin]

8. Yes. It helped end Viet Nam

Which is why the caskets coming home are censored and why msm doesn't show any gorey pics from IraqNam.

[kcass1954]

10. We need to see this...

I used to go to crisispictures.org every day - I go about once a week or so now. There are pictures that I saw last year that are forever burned in my memory. These pictures continually fuel my hatred of this war. I don't force him to do this, but my 9-yr-old occasionally looks at them with me. I want him to know the consequences of war.

It's important for all of us to see what we're really doing, both to the Iraqi people and to our troops. Not just those of us who are already against the war, but EVERYONE. The Iraqi people are not kissing us and throwing flowers at our feet. A lot of them hate us, and are lobbing explosives at us. Yes, I'm sure that some of them are glad that Saddam is gone. But at the same time, I'm sure they're saddened because things are not any better than they were under Saddam, just different.

I hate this fucking war!!!

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[Fire Walk With Me]

12. You have to be careful, people can become conditioned to almost anything.

We build defenses, blind spots, to such horror, if we don't want to deal with it. Instead of motivating people, it could build a new layer of denial that would be hard to break.

[mopaul]

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