Photographs from Iraq You Haven’t Seen
While Americans celebrate our victory in Iraq with flags, bumper stickers, and dramatic aircraft carrier landings by our President, perhaps it would be useful to stop for a second and look at the results of this war. I mean actually look. With our eyes. 
The American Media has decided that your eyes are too sensitive to see these disturbing photos. But there they are: 20 pages of the images of war you haven’t seen. I do not apologize for sending you to view such graphic and disturbing images. They serve an important purpose. They answer a question many people have asked lately: “Why do they hate us?” The answer is obvious. We’re the people who did that. And now we’re the people who are celebrating the fact that we did that. I cannot imagine anything more monstrous.
Before you object: Shouldn’t we be glad the Iraqi people have a chance at freedom now? Of course. But it could never properly be the sort of jubilant happiness on display currently. Instead it’s the sort of happiness a mother has whose only child was killed saving someone else’s life. They ask her, “Aren’t you happy about the great thing your child did?” She may well respond, “Yes. Yes I am. But also, I may never get over my deep sadness about the manner in which it was accomplished.”
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