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.