Pics of Americans wounded in Iraq

[Dardedar]

Realistic and very graphic pictures of Americans wounded Iraq:

http://www.voltairenet.org/article136827.html
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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Wars cost much in dollars, but more in destruction of lives. I wonder what that young man had planned to do before all his money - and most of his future money - got tied up in prosthetics?

[Dardedar]

Warfare as It Really Is
By Bob Herbert
The New York Times

Monday 01 May 2006

In the first few moments of the documentary film "Baghdad ER," we see a man dressed in hospital scrubs carrying a bloodied arm that has been amputated above the elbow. He deposits it in a large red plastic bag.

This HBO production is reality television with a vengeance - warfare as it really is. And while it is frightening, harrowing and deeply painful to watch, it should be required viewing for all but the youngest Americans. It will premiere May 21.

For two months in 2005, the directors Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill were given unprecedented access by the Army to the 86th Combat Support Hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad. Working 12-hour shifts, they watched - and taped - the heroic struggle of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to salvage as many lives as possible from what amounted to a nonstop conveyor be?t of bloodied, broken and burned G.I.'s.

At one point in the film, a specialist who survived a roadside bomb attack murmurs from a stretcher, "It was the worst thing I ever saw in my life, sir."

"What was that?" he is asked.

Recalling his last view of a buddy who was killed in the attack, he says, "My friend didn't have a face."

The movie is neither pro-war nor anti-war. It is simply a searing record of the ferocious toll that combat takes on real human beings.

In an interview, Mr. Alpert described "the shock of seeing human beings twisted into these horrible shapes, with parts missing and parts being detached from them." In the first couple of hours after he and Mr. O'Neill had arrived at the hospital, he said, "We had already seen two amputations and they were prepping someone else for another one."

Before long, he said, the effort to document the daily activities became psychologically grueling because "you just knew that every single day that door was going to open up, that the helicopter was going to land, and they were just going to bring in something that looked like hamburger instead of a human being."

Above all else, war is about the suffering of individuals. The suffering is endured mostly by the young, and these days the government and the media are careful to keep the worst of it out of the sight of the average American. That way we can worry in peace about the cost of the gasoline we need to get us to the mall.

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[Dardedar]

More hardcore, graphic pictures of wounded children in Iraq. Shown to the tune of "Jesus Loves Me This I know."

http://peacetakescourage.cf.huffingtonp ... /wwjd.html

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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Whether it's "Battle Circus" with Bogart, or "Mash" with Alda, the entertainment portion of MSM always prettys things up for the "folks at home". The folks at home insist on it, have forced through "christian" lobbyists governmental regulation of movies and TV to demonize even the "purest" of adult, consensual, sex and deify sanitized violence. But then, their religion is sanitized violence (the protestants don't even hang a man on their sacred crosses and the catholics have quit showing the blood - neither of them ever showed the urine and feces besplattering these instruments of death to the lower-classes).