How I hate what my country is doing right now! (warning: TRAGIC photo)

[lostnfound]

Today's photo on Truthout is especially disturbing. Devastating. Depressing. Heartbreaking.

I am sorry, young man. So very, very sorry.

God damn Cheney and Bush and the whole neocon cabal. Damn them.


November 28, 2005 | An Iraqi boy mourns over the body of his father at the morgue of a local hospital in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad. The boy's father is one of eight Iraqi employees at a US base who were shot and killed as they boarded a minibus in the nearby village of Abu Saida. Iraqis working for US forces are regularly targeted by insurgents.
(Photo: Ali Yussef / AFP)

[seriousstan]

1. Damn those insurgents, oh wait , insurgents don't kill, guns kill.

DAMN THOSE GUNS!!

[AlienGirl]

2. OMG...I want to give that poor kid a hug

How can any parent look at the expression of anguish and fear that kid's got and not see their own child?

Tucker

[NMMNG]

10. You silly bleeding heart librul

That kid is probably just going to grow up and become a terraist, just like all of them people over there. :sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

3. Yes. Damn these criminals for making orphans.

ORPHAN MAKERS.



:kick:

[OneBlueSky]

4. what do you think this young man thinks of the USA? . . .

and what might he decide to do about it when he gets a little older? . . .

BushCo is much better at creating terrorists than it is at defeating them . ..

[populistdriven]

5. this kid won't join the insurgents, they killed his dad

Who knows what he will do in the future though, when that much grief turns to anger, a generation of Iraqi's is lost.

[Yollam]

8. He probably was already taking a lot of grief...

...because of his dad being a traitor. I can't imagine what he must be going through.

[eridani]

9. He might well join another branch of the insurgents, then

He'll remember which family group was responsible for his father's death, and join another group to go after them.

[Yollam]

6. That's heartbreaking. But that's what happens to collaborators, isn't it?

Bushco has put these people in a position of having to choose poverty or becoming collaborators/traitors to their country by cooperating with the illegitimate US puppet regime.

Sad, sad, sad...

[Erika]

7. W's legacy. Where were all the flowers Cheney promised?

He told us we would be greeted as liberators and that Iraqi oil would pay for W's war. Remember?

[bigscott]

11. the iraqis

are using all the flowers for their graves

[lostnfound]

13. OMG, isn't that the truth. nt

[leftchick]

12. Another very sad one...

A prisoner embraces his children during a family visit at an Iraqi military prison in Baghdad December 2, 2005. Every Friday families are allowed to visit relatives being held in prison inside the al-Karrar Iraqi military base in Baghdad. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

:cry: