Don't turn away

[threeplusfire]

The Washington Post has a photo section titled Camera Works. I'm looking at these pictures, of women saying goodbye to their children before shipping out, or kids not so much older than me pointing M16s at bunches of Iraqis sitting on the road, of people dead in the dust and sand, of a middle aged woman with rings on her fingers holding up a gun, of a man whose daughter is missing, of the Danish Prime Minister covered in red paint, of protestors in plastic cuffs, of a nine year old girl covered in bandages, of Bush sitting in a godawful ugly chair at Camp David with Blair, of buildings burning and explosions and blood and death and destruction and this had better be worth it, this had fucking better be worth it, do you hear me?

Comments

[electricdog.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I can look. This hurts.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I believe we have an obligation to look, to see what our tax dollars and our governments and our kinsmen are doing. This is something we can't be blind about, because it literally is a matter of life and death. It may change a great deal about the way we vote in the next election. Or it may not. But it is something so big that we can not be silent or ignorant of it, even if it hurts.

[adayinthelife.livejournal.com]

it's not. and it won't be.

its money down the drain for more pain and more conflict.

IMHO.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I have the same feeling about it. Even though I cling to the slender thread of hope that perhaps in the end some good will come of it. Though it seems so bleak.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Some of the soldiers who've died are even younger than me, and I'm years younger than you are.

My hope is that somehow or another, we'll stop using so many bombs, at the very least. I don't think we can get out of the war now, but at the very least I wish we weren't killing all those civilians.

I heard they're planning to lay siege on Baghdad until the civilians can't take it anymore and kill Saddam. I sincerely doubt, though, that if my city were under siege, I would try to kill my country's leader and not the people surrounding the city... I don't understand these bizarre military tactics. If America's government really cared about Iraqis they wouldn't be doing this to them.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I seriously wonder about the tactics and plans being used. It's bothersome.

And I wonder, if we fear he has weapons of mass destruction, what the hell happens when we blow up some secret bunker full of chemical weapons? That scares me.