"Souls of the Departed" (WARNING: Graphic)

[Hissyspit]

From Wikipedia:

On May 1, 2003 George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in a Lockheed S-3 Viking, where he gave a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in the War on Iraq. Clearly visible in the background was a banner stating "Mission Accomplished"...

Monday is the three-year anniversary of "Mission Accomplished." And U.S. deaths in the invasion and occupation of Iraq have just reached 2,400, with many thousand more injuries and uncounted Iraqi civilians killed and injured. It continues.


      Bruce Springsteen "Souls of the Departed" (1992):


On the road to Basra stood young Lieutenant Jimmy Bly




           Detailed to go through the clothes of the soldiers who died

               


                              At night in dreams he sees their souls rise

               


       Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies

                                                                           



Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed




               Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted

                                                                           


                              This is a prayer for the souls of the departed

                                         



Tonight as I tuck my own son in bed




                     All I can think of is what if it would've been him instead

      


I want to build me a wall so high nothing can burn it down

                         


                                             Right here on my own piece of dirty ground

            

                              



This is a prayer for the souls of the departed

                                       


Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted

                                                            


                          Young lives over before they got started

           


                      This is a prayer for the souls of the departed





Now I ply my trade in the land of king dollar

                                                             


          Where you get paid and your silence passes as honor

                       

               


                              And all the hatred and dirty little lies

                  

                                                                     

           


       Been written off the books and into decent men's eyes...

                              





NOTES:

PHOTO #23
'Marlboro Man' in Iraq War Photo Suffers from PTSD
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=6004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/29/MNGMHGVCEV1.DTL

PHOTO #21
Colin Powell at the United Nations, February 5, 2003
http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_033005a.html

PHOTO #8
A wounded Iraqi child lies on a hospital bed next to his sister after they were both injured in a suicide attack in Baghdad, January 4, 2005.
http://www.citysearchsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20050104-1724-iraq.html

PHOTO #11
Body floating in New Orleans, September 2005
http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives/2005/09/forgive_us_lawd.html

PHOTO #14
Held by his mother Lori Moreno, Matthew Parkerson, age 6, looks up at a Marine Honor Guard after receiving an American flag at his father's memorial service held at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery Monday. Marine Sgt. Harvey Emmett Parkerson III was killed in action August 18th, 2004 in Najaf Iraq.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/08/31/news/top_stories/21_45_038_30_04.txt

PHOTO #6
Two injured Iraqi girls, whose parents were killed during a US air raid on Baghdad, devastated after looters took the beds they were sleeping on, in the hospital (Alquds, 4/12/03).
http://www.sfbayview.com/051403/depleteduranium051403.shtml

PHOTO #10
Metal art at the Nagales border crossing

PHOTO #1
U.S. Marine in Baghdad, April 12, 2003 (Photo: Christophe Simon/AFP).

PHOTO #13
Hospital in Fallujah, 2006

PHOTO #7
Marla Ruzicka in Afghanistan
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200504/041805a.html

PHOTO #12
As security forces focus on those who survived Monday's hurricane and the subsequent flooding, dead bodies can be seen floating on the streets. It is still not known how many people have died in this Louisiana city.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/americas_aid_effort_gathers_pace/html/4.stm

PHOTO #18
Paul Bremer receiving the Medal of Freedom, Dec. 14, 2004

PHOTO #19
President George W. Bush presents former Central Intelligence Agency director, George J. Tenet, the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, the nation's highest civilian honor, in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, December 14, 2004
http://www.medaloffreedom.com/GeorgeTenet.htm

If you play this song today, PLAY FUCKING LOUD

[stillcool]

1. excellent.

:kick:

[xchrom]

2. thank you!

[WePurrsevere]

3. Wow, that's so hard hitting w/ the words & pics. words fail me.

Just :kick: and R'd

[xultar]

4. Breathtaking.

:kick:

[babylonsister]

5. Very powerful, Hissyspit-thank you. nt

[mom cat]

6. Thanks. I just added these photos to my file.

[warrior1]

7. k&r

[Fridays Child]

8. k/r

[Sydnie]

9. Amazingly done - powerful and thought provoking

Thank you for doing this.

[lonestarnot]

10. Grand work hissyspit!

IMPEACH THE BITCHES!

[leftchick]

11. thank you

:cry:

[Maestro]

12. Poignant

What assholes PNACers are!

[auntAgonist]

13. thank you for this. nt

[Mnemosyne]

14. Powerful Hissy!

Thank you. :hug:

[Rocknrule]

15. All these people are dead because of one disgusting man

:mad:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My dear Hissyspit........

Your thread is thought-provoking, and amazing to behold....

Well done!

It saddens me enormously to see all the carnage that has happened because we have an evil man in the White House...

Kicked and recommended .......:patriot:

[NMMNG]

17. Powerful, heartbreaking

Well done. :applause:

[LaurenG]

18. Oh Hissyspit

How profound and deeply, deeply sad.
:hug:

[Hissyspit]

19. May 1 self-kick n/t