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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