A harrowing story of life in Iraq. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/17/baghdad-iraq-residents?
'Nour's family, all middle-class Sunni Muslims, were caught up in a brutal contest for allegiance that saw neighbours and clans pitted against each other on a scale that caught Britain and the US totally unprepared.
There are tens of thousands of such stories throughout Iraq's communities. And while levels of violence have continued to fall in Iraq since Nour's family was slain (last year, 2,800 civilians were killed, according to the Brookings Index, compared with 6,400 in 2008 and 34,500 at the height of the sectarian war in 2006), a gnawing fear remains that, as the general election approaches next month, this relative calm is merely a lull before another round of vengeance and blood letting.'
There's no need for these type of graphic, gory pictures to illustrate a point, whatever it is.
ReplyDeleteANON: Why not show the world the truth. This is reality. War is not a drone and a joy stick. It is the stench of blood, and death. Mostly innocent civilians, and children. These type of pictures should be shown on television in every house hold during dinner time. Hopefully they would make people throw up. The smell of death does not come through the screen, the shrill of the children screaming does not come through the screen. But just perhaps it would make people think twice about war.
ReplyDeleteAnon. This site could be a lot more graphic if I didn't want to deter visitors. Robert Fisk is hugely more articulate on this subject than I could hope to be. You should read him. I notice you make no comment on the subject matter.
ReplyDeleteTONY: If there is no reply by ANON, which I doubt there will be one.
ReplyDeleteThen here is the answer to why he made no comment to the subject matter.
These "volunteers" are on call 24/7
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html