images: Snapshots taken by Iraqi children and US soldiers.

This daily witness is dedicated mitt schlagg und madd props to Damnit Janet, who pointed me to the site featuring these photos.

(((((DJ)))))

Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.

100kb images and lyric below the fold

Here’s where we live (Ahmad, 13)
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Members of the German aid organisation APN  (photographer unknown)
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Repairing a bicycle (Hussein, 14)
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We’re poor because of the dictator Saddam Hussein; so far nothing’s changed (Ali, 14)
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13-year-old Ihsan with his sister on the way to school (photographer unknown)
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Time for making oneself look nice (Matwa, 13)
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I sometimes have nightmares, but I don’t think about it (Ihsan, 13)
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Wellness after duty’s over  (Nichole, 20, US soldier)
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from Everyday People
Sly and the Family Stone

I am no better and neither are you
We are the same whatever we do
You love me, you hate me, you loathe me, and then
You can’t figure out what bag I’m in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
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I urge you to visit Baghdad Stories: Picture From Iraq, the project of German photographer and reporter Phillipp Abresch, who distributed 170 single-use cameras to Iraqi children and teens, as well as to US soldiers, in the relatively quiet days immediately following the initial phase of the invasion and occupation in March, 2003. Abresch planned to exhibit the photos in Baghdad in April, 2004, but the ongoing violence made that impossible.
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I will resume posting this daily diary on Monday, August 8th.

This diary series is dedicated to all who suffer because of war

support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
support the fallen
support the troops
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read This is what John Kerry did today, the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s Bagdhad Burning
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
read this soldier’s blog
witness every day

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