Pictures of dead American soldiers and POW

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Posted by jp on Mar-23-2003 20:06:

Pictures of dead American soldiers and POW

These TV captures of AL-Jazeera are awful. It shows what war is really like.

http://cm.emptyspaces.net/war/aljazeera/

Hope it will all be over soon!

Posted by tranzformer on Mar-23-2003 20:15:

those pictures are so disturbing ....... i wish someone would shut that site down

Posted by quddha on Mar-23-2003 20:56:

http://www.torontostar.ca/NASApp/cs...ol=968793972154

there were several other pictures of such incidents in my local newspaper today.

Posted by quddha on Mar-23-2003 20:58:

"Dr. Habib Al-Hezai counted 101 patients wounded in the raids and now staying in his hospital. Eighty-five of them are civilians � including 20 women and six children � and 16 soldiers"

I hope this is not the real ratio of soldier:civilian casualities in the whole war..

Posted by Alccode on Mar-23-2003 21:42:

quote:
Originally posted by tranzformer
those pictures are so disturbing ....... i wish someone would shut that site down

On the contrary!

Everyone, especially the supporters of the war, should be looking at these pictures every day to see the real results of what is happening here. Seeing pictures of smoking palaces at night on CNN is nothing.

And to tell you the truth, the pictures aren't even that bad. You should see some of the more gruesome images of war... decapitations, limbs missing, crushed body parts, scorched body parts, etc. etc.!

Why run away? This is reality. You should face it.

Posted by Swamper on Mar-23-2003 22:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Alccode
On the contrary!

Why run away? This is reality. You should face it.

Agreed.

Many media outlets like to sugarcoat what war is really like - it is one thing to hear about the # of casualties - it is another to see the gruesome images related to that number.

It's ironic that some people seek to censor the true images of violence but seem to shrug their shoulders when anything else around them (entertainment industry/games) thrives on its appeal.

My obvious $0.02.

Posted by malek on Mar-23-2003 23:24:

quote:
Originally posted by tranzformer
those pictures are so disturbing ....... i wish someone would shut that site down

sure sure buddy, grow up! this is war!

I love it how the US medias aren't showing any of these to their people with an excuse that the geneva convention doesn't allow it. Does the Geneva convention applies to dead bodies? I remember seeing more than once videos of iraqi soldiers surrendering (becoming POW in the process)... isn't that illegal too? or is it just a propaganda tool used by the US to demoralize iraqis troop that now is turned against themselves?

Also, since when the US follows international law? man they're so hypocrite.

Also, on the first day of war, american officials reported that the iraqi soldiers captured won't be treated as POW (following the Geneva convention) but treated like criminal like the afghanis held in Cuba.

Anyways, this isn't a walk in the park, double digit casualities in the coallition forces, POWs, accidental plane shot down, all this on the 4th day on this long war.

Posted by ZinG on Mar-23-2003 23:48:

Speaking about the Geneva convention, if you read it you do realize how many articles the U.S. have already broken and trying to accuse iraqis of one article that they also broke when they started showing the iraqi soldiers being searched and inspected (going down to ground, etc...).
Ofcourse Iraq has already broken this article back in 1991, and many more, to come to U.S. trying to accuse others of atrocities when they have already done it in their own "media version".

Posted by intrinsic on Mar-24-2003 00:12:

quote:

I remember seeing more than once videos of iraqi soldiers surrendering (becoming POW in the process)... isn't that illegal too? or is it just a propaganda tool used by the US to demoralize iraqis troop that now is turned against themselves?

Geneva Convention does not allow the release of videos/images of POW's being interrogated... You should do some research before you post questions that all ready have answers.

Anyways, all media is propaganda of some sort. Do you think Iraq is releasing images of wounded/dead Iraqi soldiers? I think not.

quote:

Also, since when the US follows international law? man they're so hypocrite.

I kinda have to agree with here on this one. As much as I support this war, I still wish we had the backing of the international community.... I just hope this ends soon.

Posted by fastmp3 on Mar-24-2003 00:53:

geneva convention ? let america respect it first in guantanamo , then the others will respect it too

Posted by ZinG on Mar-24-2003 00:57:

not to mention that the UN now is the most ridiculous place for human rights, it's lost its credibility and legitimacy.

Posted by PeacefulWarrior on Mar-24-2003 01:28:

quote:
those pictures are so disturbing ....... i wish someone would shut that site down

This IS war--it's not pretty.

Posted by klingklang77 on Mar-24-2003 01:36:

quote:
Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior
This IS war--it's not pretty.

yeah it isn't.. these pictures are even more disturbing...the hostage killings...http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2003/3/3-22-26.htm

i warn you these pictures are very disturbing, i believe it is the pows that were killed but i can not read arabic...

war is not pretty at all, but it is the reality and needs to be seen.

Posted by JM on Mar-24-2003 02:10:

seems like its' the first time you guys have seen pics such as these.

damn, i remember in 91 when i was looking through Croatian newspapers seeing pics of slaughtered people. now that was quite disturbing, considering i was only 11. ....nothing new. it IS war.

...edit. eeh...
>JM<

Posted by fastmp3 on Mar-24-2003 02:11:

it's the pics of innocent civilian irakis killed by the american bombings ...

victims of the british-american bombings in irak = ��

Posted by TuanAnh213 on Mar-24-2003 02:24:

quote:
Originally posted by JM
seems like its' the first time you guys have seen pics such as these.

damn, i remember in 91 when i was looking through Croatian newspapers seeing pics of slaughtered people. now that was quite disturbing, considering i was only 11. ....nothing new. it IS war.

...edit. eeh...
>JM<

werd...these pictures shouldn't be surprising to anyone...this is a fucking war

Posted by Arbiter on Mar-24-2003 02:35:

Well, it certainly isn't pleasant, but it's not really any worse than thousands of people dying in hospitals around the world with any number of diseases, but I don't hear many people crying for them. I guess it suits the moral masturbation of some people more to lament death when it facilitates their finger-pointing instincts.

Anyway, just to be contrary: