Unfortunately, the media seems too intent on the negative. That's a beautiful photo, though. Thank you for sharing it.

The kid's family was executed by insurgents. The kid herself was wounded. The soldier is able to comfort her.
A heartbreaking story but at the same time a wonderful photo.

What kind of sick bastard could shoot a little child like that in the head?

Yes, it's very unfortunate that a photo like the one you posted above was not shown all over the newspapers or the tv stations.


Don Cardi

That is a prize winning photo. It shows all the brutality of what is going on there. It should get a lot of play, but it probably is too honest a picture to go with the agendas of any of the media, right or left.

Is that baby giving him a hickey?

What newspaper is that from?

I like how people say the media is negative when "it" reports facts, but then people gush all over propaganda like this

Exactly right DonT. As the saying goes :

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

I imagine that that poor child is having recurring nightmares about what happened to her and that is why she needs to be calmed down. I can't even imagine the physical and psycological pain that child is going through. And you know that the soldier is hurting inside for that child. It tears my heart apart.



Don Cardi

This is really just a sick and unnecessary joke to post. I am so tired of seeing these kinds of posts by you and then when you are called on it we get the same "thats just my kind of humor" responses. Have you once stopped and thought about what you are typing rather than acting like an immature child all the time?

I know in your mind you're trying to come off as this "bad ass" or "I don't give a damn" kind of a guy, but in reality you come off looking childish, inappropriate and immature.

I'll delete my post when you delete yours.

Well, this is what happens when an unjust war starts. Boo hoo, its a war. An illegal war that has a propaganda machine going to print such pictures.

"Oh look at that poor little girl and how the US saved her."

bull

More like "Look at the girl. Her family was killed because the US couldn't stay the hell out of Iraq"

I KNOW this is going to start another Iraq War debate and I'm not getting into that but all I'll say is that her family was killed by insurgents, which means they did not agree with what the insurgents were doing. The fact that they were executed (not just killed by a bomb) means they were probably AGAINST the insurgency so that should say something about the thoughts of some people in Iraq.

Please continue with all of the illegal war and all that, I won't be responding to that.

Hey, I hate to burst your bubble, but the insurgents are only in Iraq because the US is.

It has nothing to do with her family's views.

So...

Illegal war + pissed off muslims = dead families

DMC, take those kinds of responses for what they are worth :

A Big Fat ZERO!

Only opportunists without inner compassion or convictions would either make jokes about something like this or try to turn it into a political issue to suit there own political agenda.

I can't, for the life of me, understand how anyone could look at a picture like that and find humor or political fodder in it. How can someone not have the compassion to see it for what it really is : An innocent child who's had her family taken away from her, has been physically hurt herself, and seeks the comfort of another human being who obviously has compassion and feelings for that child and her situation.

Iraqi, Italian, American, Spanish, whatever, we are looking at two human beings who have formed a bond out of a horrible situation.

I fail to see where that picture provides ANY kind of humor or ANY political fodder.


Don Cardi

I fail to see how USING caps TO make YOUR point ACTUAL helps YOUR post.

I fail to see how you fail to see

Shhht, the "violence, terrorism, hatred, chaos, ... are only existing because of the US presence in the regio is not done.
Flies just don't fly to lightbulbs, that's one of the most mis-informed statements of the year.

The girl's family would probably be alive if the US was not in Iraq

That's very true. Just shows the effects of this administration on the rest of the world. Terrible.

Hmmm.... have you checked your own signature lately?

Its a signature duh

And your post is not relevant to the discussion

Careful, sonny!!!

Your post criticizing another member's posting style is awfully close to being very bad.

You SURE you wanna argue with me now???

It was in jest

a signature is not a post

cool it

I'll be happy to.

Cool it critizing another member's posting style (its njot relevant to the discussion).

I fail to understand why you don't understand that.

Care to criticize me anymore? Or, how about you get back on topic and save it for a PM?

jeesh

EDIT- I like how you can edit your posts SC without the "edit" notice showing up, like right after I post my reply, that's really mature

Its a board moderator's duty to correct an errant member.

Johnny, you'd better watch where you are going with this. You keep it up and you just might have something else to add to your signature. Stop disrespecting the moderators here. This is not YOUR playground.


Don Cardi

get back on topic you have a sick sense of correction so get back on topic

Ooooops.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving. I'm telling you this now because you won't have an apportunity to respond until AFTER the holiday.

(Forgive the caps).

Everybody just got owned.

This is a prime example of how decent members who start good topics have those topics turned into shit by people who have nothing positive to contribute to them.



Don Cardi

I'm glad you didn't mention how long after. Hope we don't forget.

BACK TO THE TOPIC

...and no more ruining heart-warming threads like this!!