The TRUE cost of war - and a war based upon bigoted lies no less...

[BlooInBloo]

I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but it bears repeating. (sigh)(sob)

(to say nothing of the 60,000 war-divorces, the link to which I've lost track of, but am willing to dig up if pressed.)



Story at: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/10/berman_photo/

Bottom line: white republicans (yes, *white* - once again, "ain't no ever called ME "nigger") want to kill {insert faux undesirable group}s. This is the price of their desire - their fundamental refusal to deal fair-and-square, and their fundamental refusal to acknowledge previous wrongs done. They're willing to sacrifice *their own* (as long as they're poor enough to be as worthless as brown-skins, in their view) for the sake of not publically acknowledging their cowardice, meanness, and bigotry.

This is the price of "American Exceptionalism" as classically expressed by roger ailes: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/09/fox-democratic-debate-rip/

A world without *this kind* of America, {inserted on 3rd edit: *could be*, contrary to ailes' predicatably impoverished imagination,} a world in which America deals fairly with both American citizens, and citizens of the world. Such an America would exist in a world in which *that kind* of marriage wouldn't take place.

jesusfuckingchrist republicans are evil people.


EDIT: "classic" -> "classically"

EDIT EDIT: Still cleaning up typos...

FINAL EDIT (gotta give it up sometime): If this picture isn't a war-ender, none is.

TRULY FINAL EDIT: I gave short shrift here to the 10^(3+) Iraqis killed. That was neither intentional, nor even to unconsciously attribute more intrinsic importance to Americans than to "others". The reason for the asymmetry is indexical - the same as the reason the following phrase exists "cutting your nose off to spite your face". It is, in all likelihood, wrong to cut someone else's nose off - but there's got to be some sense in which a "higher committment" to wrongdoing is expressed by one's willingness to cut *one's very own* nose off. That's the idea I was aiming at here.

[MadMaddie]

1. Stunningly sad....my heart aches for this young couple as

well as all of the military families caught up in this war.

This photographer is exceptional. The military photos are heartbreaking.

[genie_weenie]

2. Why do you think the Regime works furiously

to hide these from the people. And is angered when someone, anyone broadcasts these unspeakable tragedies.

No casket photos, Retribution for Walter Reed soldiers. Iraq should be the lead story every night I don't care how many petulant asses complain that their favorite baseball team isn't getting 15 minutes of TV time...

[BlooInBloo]

4. Yah - I wanted to add another "EDIT", but got even sicker of them than the reader...

... It would've been of the form "Do you remember Robert Duvall in the movie "A Civil Action"? When he said, upon the bereaved small town populace leaving the deposition "those people can never testify", THAT'S precisely what the bush administration is after.

[Monkeyman]

3. The pain in my heart is strong