Al-Jazeera has published the graphic images from the Italian video from the Fallujah offensive. They have also published a DU image as well. Many people today do not understand the graphic nature of war today. We have lived a sheltered life, and have not known the meaning of human suffering. The media treats it like a big video game, as does the Bush administration.
The Vietnam War ended because people came to understand the graphic nature of warfare. The Pentagon and the Bush administration know this well. Therefore, they do all they can to sanitize war news with fake stories like Jessica Lynch or Pat Tillman.
Today, I will do my small part to change that. Please distribute these pictures as widely as possible, especially to your right-wing friends. Maybe then, we will effect some change.
Documentary: US used chemical weapons in Fallujah.
See the number in the second picture? So much for compassionate conservatism.
The fourth picture was taken early in the war; this boy was mained by American “smart” weapons.
The only reasonable explaination of Bush and Cheney’s use of incendiary weapons and DU against civilian targets is that they did it out of hatred. This is nothing new for the GOP. Maybe the elections show that people are finally starting to wake up and demand a stop to the madness.
Let me tell you the story of a soldier named Dan.
Went out to fight the good fight in South Vietnam,
Went out to fight for peace, liberty and all,
Went out to fight for equality, hope, let’s go,
And the war drags on.
Found himself involved in a sea of blood and bones,
Millions without faces, without hope and without homes.
And the guns they grew louder as they made dust out of bones
That the flesh had long since left just as the people left their
homes,
And the war drags on.
They’re just there to try and make the people free,
But the way that they’re doing it, it don’t seem like that to
me.
Just more blood-letting and misery and tears
That this poor country’s known for the last twenty years,
And the war drags on.
Last night poor Dan had a nightmare it seems.
One kept occurring and re-occurring in his dream:
Cities full of people burn and scream and shoutin’ loud
And right over head a great orange mushroom cloud.
And there’s no more war,
for there’s no more world,
And the tears come streaming down.
Yes, I lie crying on the ground.