Fuck Bush, Fuck the War, Fuck Everything

[jackshoegazer]

Dublin, on U.S. Inauguration Day, didn't seem to notice. Oh, they played a few clips that night of the American president saying, "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands."
But that was not their lead story.




The picture on the front page of The Irish Times was a large four-color picture of a small Iraqi girl. Her little body was a coil of steel. She sat knees up, cowering, screaming madly into the dark night. Her white clothes and spread hands and small tight face were blood-spattered. The blood was the blood of her father and mother, shot through the car window in Tal Afar by American soldiers while she sat beside her parents in the car, her four brothers and sisters in the back seat.

A series of pictures of the incident played on the inside page, as well. A 12-year-old brother, wounded in the fray, falls face down out of the car when the car door opens, the pictures show. In another, a soldier decked out in battle gear, holds a large automatic weapon on the four children, all potential enemies, all possible suicide bombers, apparently, as they cling traumatized to one another in the back seat and the child on the ground goes on screaming in her parent's blood.

No promise of "freedom" rings in the cutline on this picture. No joy of liberty underlies the terror on these faces here.

Comments

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

jesus. h. christ.

that's up there with the most awful things i've seen, and what's worse is how common that type of scene is. fuck.

that makes me so upset.

and NOT A WORD HERE. NOTHING. NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT TELLING PEOPLE!!! gah! i am so fucking frustrated.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm so angry I can't even handle it. Furious. Words aren't enough. I pray Bush and his cronies experience this ten times worse. They deserve no less.

[nonexsistent.livejournal.com]

I always found it amusing that nobody says anything about these things here. They dont understand the extent of whats happening in our world because its not happening in front of them. Its somewhere else so they dont have to deal with it. Just wait until it starts here too........

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's THE problem with America and why the "terrorists" hate us... South Park said it best.. "A third of the world hates you because you don't realize that a third of the world hates you." We sit here in our sleeping in our Great American Dream, peacefully sleeping and oblivious to the goings-on in the rest of the world and the evils perpetrated by our own government.

[nonexsistent.livejournal.com]

Absolutley true. It makes me happy to realize that there are some people out there that can see whats going on. Im glad to have stumbled across your LJ ;) Oh and it always makes me happy to see the word oblivion in a sentence, its one of my favorite words.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Unfortuantely being aware of this isn't helping, but this war hasn't reached a Vietnam level of critical mass where the majority of people are against it. Wait until we invade Iran and get our asses kicked, and we're fighting a four-prong war between Afganistan, Iraq, Iran and Syria, with N. Korea throwing down just when we don't think it can get any worse. Watch the draft come back, sucking the youth of this country into the jaws of a MIddle Eastern death and then, maybe then, people will get the picture.

I've decided that Democracy is a failed experiment. It allows mob rule and the majority of any group are idiots. Unfortunately I see no other form of government that works either. Maybe we should go back to Philosopher-Kings, enlightened souls who rule over the sheep, because THIS is what happens when the majority rules.

[lurkula.livejournal.com]

that blood looks very red... almost photoshop red.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Some of that red is flowers on the girls dress. The blood is on her face and hands and the ground.

[matt120.livejournal.com]

I am thankful that I've never experienced anything like that in my childhood. Damn.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I know. But it's okay, because those children will grow up in an orphanage, traumatized from witnessing the brutal and horrific deaths of their parents, and have the freedom to vote.

MOTHERFUCKER.

I can't even believe how angry I get thinking about this.

Think of 1776

[anarch-king.livejournal.com]

What kind of horrible place was this one.
What kind pangs through must one persist.
I know, personally, a soldier who did worse.
Filled not just the parents with bullets, but the child as well.
This is just a case of placed picture, this is just the one YOU saw.
This little girl will be part of a culture. One that, despite or because, will make her world a better place, perhaps at the expense of the one we live in.
That is what loosing your parents does, it makes you stonger than we, with mommys and poppys, can understand.