NYT frontpage photo of scared to death US soldier

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

Today's NEW YORK TIMES front page has an Iraq occupation photo
at suicide bombing in Baghdad with US soldier's face shown
close up. Soldier with a baby's face, has a look that shows the
utter chaos, fear, deathly fear of one so young.

There is a dead body in the background, next to the iron fence,
appears naked as if all that person's clothes were blown away
by the bomb blast.

I sure pity the mother who sees her little boy so scared.
That mother & father will be so so worried their son
has been wounded, wounded in his soul, never to be the same again.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/pageone/scan/index.html




its hard to see the photos details of that young soldier's face.
its hard to see his eyes.

No words can describe his eyes.

[hippiechick]

1. "Wolfowitz, a PLANNER of War, Sees It Up Close...."

Nice verbage on that headline.


:hippie:

[Kolesar]

2. Cleverly understated, but the meaning is clear eom

[Galley_Queen]

7. Better Headline:

Wolfowitz, Chickenhawk, Sees it Up Close and Personal.

Subtitle: Irony Not Lost on Non-Moron Americans

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. Hey, they got Resolution 1511 though!

That makes ALL the difference!


(yeah, right)

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[soleft]

3. delete

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[TexasEditor]

4. I appreciate your sincerity...

but he's probably just thinking fast, covering his position, got his guard WAY up, and his weapon ready, with the safety off.

Also, no one makes it through basic training (boot camp) and remains a "baby" or "a little boy," although, yes, his mother will be upset to see this photo.

Thanks for posting it.

[Galley_Queen]

6. No One Makes It Through

bootcamp and comes out a little boy? LMAO! Then please explain why so many full grown men are still like little boys? :silly:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. this is all too sad for this mothers heart ...magine this soldiers mothers

heart....even more so the dead iraqi's mothers hearts
he is just a child ...why? why?...why do our young children have to pay for OLD mens sins??????<tears>

[Galley_Queen]

8. "Out with the Old

In with the very old". That's what I said when the Chimp in Charge put his 'dream team' together.

I agree with you 110%.

[gratuitous]

9. It's so hard to judge from a still photo

The picture has captured a millisecond in time, but I don't doubt that it conveys something essential about the personnel in Iraq.

Naturally, if the photo wins a Pulitzer and the Chimpministration objects, the Times will hand the prize back to maintain "access."

[Woodstock]

10. here is another shot of the pic

if you have screenshot capability you can grab it (I just got it as a jpg) - it's slide 8

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/international/20031028_IRAQ/

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. Nice link.

[Pastiche423]

23. Another shot

[qwertyMike]

26. Belfast

I've seen that look a thousand times on the men-boy soldiers there.

Trouble is it makes them trigger-happy.

BOOH!

[Beaker]

11. Who knew that Leonardo diCaprio had signed up?

do they offer military-issue Depends for the pants-pissers?

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[thebigidea]

15. only blind worship is appropriate

and please have some kind words for Wolfowitz, too.

He WAS the front line.

[Beaker]

24. Are you saying that there are NO pants-pissers over there?

Because I didn't even come close to saying that ALL of them were that way.
The look on the soldiers face in the pic doesn't exactly scream Bravery", now does it?

lighten up a little...or a lot maybe.

[Name removed]

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[Beaker]

25. For saying what?

Why would I want to go over there?
That's a job for the people who VOLUNTEERED to be king george's pawns...even the pants-pissers among them.

[Skip Intro]

14. meanwhile, the awol a**hole coward who put him over there smirks

and lies his way through another day...

Wonder if he or any in the warparty have lost any sleep at all over concern for our guys? right...

And oriely and the faux news whores shoveling the pro-war piles from one spot to another - I have to stop before I get sick.

Where's justice?

[beanball]

16. Fear in the faces of our young men.

Shame on you bush,you call yourself a christian,no follower of my savior would send innocent men and women to die so you and your blood thirsty,greedy already rich evil pals can make more blood money,may you see harm you are causing your country and its poor citizens,turn from your evil ways,repent and seek the salvation of your soul and those fearfull men and women.

[Malva Zebrina]

22. shouldn't someone like the Pope call him on that?

If anyone has a conscience, should they not be calling George on his professed Christianity when he lies to murder thousands of people? Where is the outrage amongst the religious? What the hell are they waiting for--the handouts from the faith based charities? I am not so sure who the leaders are of the other mainstream religions, but shouldn't someone who professses to be religious and is sincere and believing about their religion, call him on that, especially when we see all sort of photos depicting George with "halos" around his head? Where is the outrage from these other religious persons? From the Pope?

[MrPrax]

17. Baby Face Nelson?

John Wesley Harding had a baby face apparantly and shot people who called him a boy!!!

Robert Fisk: One, two, three, what are they fighting for?

Oct 24, 2003: (The Independent) I was in the police station in the town of Fallujah when I realised the extent of the schizophrenia. Captain Christopher Cirino of the 82nd Airborne was trying to explain to me the nature of the attacks so regularly carried out against American forces in the Sunni Muslim Iraqi town. His men were billeted in a former presidential rest home down the road - "Dreamland", the Americans call it - but this was not the extent of his soldiers' disorientation. "The men we are being attacked by," he said, "are Syrian-trained terrorists and local freedom fighters." Come again? "Freedom fighters." But that's what Captain Cirino called them - and rightly so.
<snip>
Little wonder, then, that Stars and Stripes, the American military's own newspaper, reported this month that one third of the soldiers in Iraq suffered from low morale. And is it any wonder, that being the case, that US forces in Iraq are shooting down the innocent, kicking and brutalising prisoners, trashing homes and - eyewitness testimony is coming from hundreds of Iraqis - stealing money from houses they are raiding? No, this is not Vietnam - where the Americans sometimes lost 3,000 men in a month - nor is the US army in Iraq turning into a rabble. Not yet. And they remain light years away from the butchery of Saddam's henchmen. But human-rights monitors, civilian occupation officials and journalists - not to mention Iraqis themselves - are increasingly appalled at the behaviour of the American military occupiers.
<snip>
...
And how bad is the problem of THEFT
...
"In one Iraqi city, for example, the "Coalition Provisional Authority" - which is what the occupation authorities call themselves - have instructed local money changers not to give dollars for Iraqi dinars to occupation soldiers: too many Iraqi dinars had been stolen by troops during house raids. Repeatedly, in Baghdad, Hillah, Tikrit, Mosul and Fallujah Iraqis have told me that they were robbed by American troops during raids and at checkpoints. Unless there is a monumental conspiracy on a nationwide scale by Iraqis, some of these reports must bear the stamp of truth."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5076.htm



Ah Poor Babies...

[maggrwaggr]

18. As a new father of a beautiful son, that picture makes me feel sick.

I hope my own boy never has to experience anything like that

[leftofthedial]

20. Bring him home

where all he has to be afraid of is having no job, home or medical care.

[calimary]

27. Even so, I'd rather see that kid facing the misery OVER HERE,

HERE AT HOME, than over there in that hell hole. THIS mother's heart aches for him, and for the mom who's going to see that photo and sob.