This is a good picture. The citizens of the U.S. need to realize that war is a horrendous thing. If they saw the dead and injured that came back maybe they would be more weary of advocating war. This doesn’t even count the dead and injured on the other side.
That being said, this picture does make me feel sad.
What makes you think we don’t know that? More and more of us are coming to the opinion that the Iraqi war is bullshit that was justified by false information. If you’re thinking of the tea party people, they’re a small, vocal minority.
I’d love to see the US able to return to pre-WW1 foreign policy, but I doubt that’ll happen anytime soon. >_<
“If they saw the dead and injured that came back maybe they would be more weary of advocating war.”
Kinda like how drunk driving causes people to crash & oftentimes in very horrendous accidents that kill innocent civilians, so we should make sure we show every single crash on TV to make sure we don’t promote that as well in the US, or even make it illegal! Wait, it already is.
That is retarded. Drunk driving and killing someone does not equate to soldiers willingly risking their lives for their country, right or wrong. Perhaps if everyone saw the very real consequences of the decision we made as a country, then perhaps we wouldn’t run headlong into a military solution every fucking time. Perhaps we wouldn’t have believed the lies if we didn’t love the idea of war so much. We gleefully through these guys at death.
Showing the body count in Vietnam on the evening news slowly but inexorably, turned Americans against the war. Showing the death toll is affecting American involvement in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Hiding the truth, softening the blow, is not helping anyone.
That is retarded. Drunk driving and killing someone does not equate to soldiers willingly risking their lives for their country, right or wrong. Perhaps if everyone saw the very real consequences of the decision we made as a country, then perhaps we wouldn’t run headlong into a military solution every fucking time. Perhaps we wouldn’t have believed the lies if we didn’t love the idea of war so much. We gleefully threw these guys at death.
Showing the body count in Vietnam on the evening news slowly but inexorably, turned Americans against the war. Showing the death toll is affecting American involvement in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Hiding the truth, softening the blow, is not helping anyone.
Yeah, you have a point. Drunk driving analogy was a little off since drunk driving victims don’t have a choice. I guess we all forget we have a all volunteer military.
“Well, you see years ago a bunch of guys representing their own ideology–rather than a particular nation–who were funded primarily by the Saudis, but spent a lot of time in the company of a fundamentalist religious faction that hung out mostly in Afghanistan attacked us. Then someone claimed that Iraq, which can just barely rise to the technical challenges involved in providing basic sanitation to its people and is filled with the sorts of dimwitted scientist who, if they tried to build a WMD, would only end up spilling a bucket of something nasty and poisoning themselves, was trying to build super-advanced weapons. And since one of these Iraqis once met with a guy who knew a guy who new the ones who attacked us, we had no choice to but attack Iraq. Also, as an afterthought, we sent some guys to Afghanistan. Then we found out that Iraq wasn’t developing evil weapons (duh), but we continued attacking them anyway. And when we were done we got a bunch of our people to help run the country, and we made sure that the people we sent over there to do this were loyal Republicans who loved Jesus, because in the end that’s all that’s really important. And so your Daddy died so that some poor Iraqis could one day dip their fingers in purple ink and pretend that they’re all Democratic. Now do you understand?”
“Wait a minute, Mommy. We attacked Iraq because an Iraqi once met with someone who knew the guys who attacked us, therefore Iraq is just as guilty as those guys? Does that make sense?”
“Of course it does, sweetie. Just like the way Mommy spent five minutes yesterday in the garage sweeping it out, so now therefore I’m a car. Vrooom-vroom!”
It is a sad picture. My wife sent me that same bear while I was in iraq. It’s easy to picture myself in the coffin considering I’m headed to afghanistan soon. And to add one more comment on the opinions of the wars in afghanistand and iraq, I think regardless of how many people want one thing or another to happen, what matters is what the soldiers believe they are fighting for, and the fact that they are willing to do it even though they know that it could just as easily been them in that casket.
Title is FAIL. Should be “Father’s Funeral and Daughter”. It’s certainly not the daughter’s funeral… unless her mother is about to dump her in the casket right before this picture was taken. 😛 😀
Gesus Tiki…You just wiped out a few officers that were behind me.
They won’t be staring at my screens anymore…
That’s a powerful image indeed.
I could have done w/o this too…how sad!
This is a good picture. The citizens of the U.S. need to realize that war is a horrendous thing. If they saw the dead and injured that came back maybe they would be more weary of advocating war. This doesn’t even count the dead and injured on the other side.
That being said, this picture does make me feel sad.
What makes you think we don’t know that? More and more of us are coming to the opinion that the Iraqi war is bullshit that was justified by false information. If you’re thinking of the tea party people, they’re a small, vocal minority.
I’d love to see the US able to return to pre-WW1 foreign policy, but I doubt that’ll happen anytime soon. >_<
Wow, War is a horrendous thing? I had no idea.
“If they saw the dead and injured that came back maybe they would be more weary of advocating war.”
Kinda like how drunk driving causes people to crash & oftentimes in very horrendous accidents that kill innocent civilians, so we should make sure we show every single crash on TV to make sure we don’t promote that as well in the US, or even make it illegal! Wait, it already is.
That is retarded. Drunk driving and killing someone does not equate to soldiers willingly risking their lives for their country, right or wrong. Perhaps if everyone saw the very real consequences of the decision we made as a country, then perhaps we wouldn’t run headlong into a military solution every fucking time. Perhaps we wouldn’t have believed the lies if we didn’t love the idea of war so much. We gleefully through these guys at death.
Showing the body count in Vietnam on the evening news slowly but inexorably, turned Americans against the war. Showing the death toll is affecting American involvement in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Hiding the truth, softening the blow, is not helping anyone.
That is retarded. Drunk driving and killing someone does not equate to soldiers willingly risking their lives for their country, right or wrong. Perhaps if everyone saw the very real consequences of the decision we made as a country, then perhaps we wouldn’t run headlong into a military solution every fucking time. Perhaps we wouldn’t have believed the lies if we didn’t love the idea of war so much. We gleefully threw these guys at death.
Showing the body count in Vietnam on the evening news slowly but inexorably, turned Americans against the war. Showing the death toll is affecting American involvement in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Hiding the truth, softening the blow, is not helping anyone.
Oops.
Yeah, you have a point. Drunk driving analogy was a little off since drunk driving victims don’t have a choice. I guess we all forget we have a all volunteer military.
How the mother explain to his daughter that dad died to allow Bush clan get more oil?
Nah, dad died so that Bush could show up his poppy.
shopped
“Why did Daddy have to die, Mommy?”
“Well, you see years ago a bunch of guys representing their own ideology–rather than a particular nation–who were funded primarily by the Saudis, but spent a lot of time in the company of a fundamentalist religious faction that hung out mostly in Afghanistan attacked us. Then someone claimed that Iraq, which can just barely rise to the technical challenges involved in providing basic sanitation to its people and is filled with the sorts of dimwitted scientist who, if they tried to build a WMD, would only end up spilling a bucket of something nasty and poisoning themselves, was trying to build super-advanced weapons. And since one of these Iraqis once met with a guy who knew a guy who new the ones who attacked us, we had no choice to but attack Iraq. Also, as an afterthought, we sent some guys to Afghanistan. Then we found out that Iraq wasn’t developing evil weapons (duh), but we continued attacking them anyway. And when we were done we got a bunch of our people to help run the country, and we made sure that the people we sent over there to do this were loyal Republicans who loved Jesus, because in the end that’s all that’s really important. And so your Daddy died so that some poor Iraqis could one day dip their fingers in purple ink and pretend that they’re all Democratic. Now do you understand?”
“Wait a minute, Mommy. We attacked Iraq because an Iraqi once met with someone who knew the guys who attacked us, therefore Iraq is just as guilty as those guys? Does that make sense?”
“Of course it does, sweetie. Just like the way Mommy spent five minutes yesterday in the garage sweeping it out, so now therefore I’m a car. Vrooom-vroom!”
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It is a sad picture. My wife sent me that same bear while I was in iraq. It’s easy to picture myself in the coffin considering I’m headed to afghanistan soon. And to add one more comment on the opinions of the wars in afghanistand and iraq, I think regardless of how many people want one thing or another to happen, what matters is what the soldiers believe they are fighting for, and the fact that they are willing to do it even though they know that it could just as easily been them in that casket.
Stay safe. Hubby is currently putting your MRAPs together to help you stay alive.
Title is FAIL. Should be “Father’s Funeral and Daughter”. It’s certainly not the daughter’s funeral… unless her mother is about to dump her in the casket right before this picture was taken. 😛 😀
you think the little girl didn’t die a little on the inside that day too?
this guy died because of the 9/11 illusion
Just makes me want to kill more brown people.
Then join up, or are you yella?
“join the army they said” (sorry couldn’t help it)
Only the dead have seen the end of war. -Plato
Epic sad face.
Trading Blood for Oil.
You like having heat? Or clothing? Or food? All those things move on trucks. Trucks require oil.
although you’re off your rocker if you think blood for oil is anything but a bumper sticker.