The NYT Features Two Men Who Were Shot in the Head in George Bush's Iraq ----->>>

[Stephanie]

Meanwhile George swans around the country oblivious, posing for photo-ops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/world/middleeast/25kirby.html?hp



Petty Officer Kirby, 23, was struck by a bullet in the left side of the face while near a bunker on the roof of Outpost Omar, a Marine position in Karma, a city in Anbar Province.

His injury mixed the worst of luck with an uncanny stroke of good fortune.

The bullet, which he said was an armor-piercing 7.62 millimeter round fired from a Dragunov-style sniper rifle at a range of 400 to 600 yards, passed through his head and exited at the side of his mouth. In traveling this path, it did not strike his brain, spinal column or major veins or arteries, he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/world/middleeast/25kirby.html?hp



Petty Officer Kirby had been assigned as a trauma medic to the battalion’s weapons company. In early November he was the subject of an article that described his work and prayers to save the life of his friend, Lance Cpl. Colin Smith, a machine gunner in the vehicle’s turret who was shot through the skull by a sniper in Karma in late October.

Lance Corporal Smith, 19, survived, and is undergoing treatment and full days of intensive therapy at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis. His father, Bob Smith, said by telephone that while his prognosis is unclear he has made significant progress.

The bullet, the same type that struck Petty Officer Kirby, destroyed the top regions of both frontal lobes of Lance Corporal Smith’s brain. But since being medically stabilized and beginning a range of therapies, he has begun to walk with assistance and a four-pronged cane, to smile and to mimic sounds and repeat words he hears, his father said.

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070221/480/5e5c8407019240bab22c81f433a1950f

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070222/480/78ee2b7dece44e458cc237b7052aec70

Friday, February 23, 2007

http: //news.yahoo.com/photo/070223/ids_photos_ts/r2891456626.jpg


Does he ever have a hard time sleeping?

[Rex]

1. George the giggling mass murderer. I say fuck him and his evil horde.

His legacy will be written in innocent blood.

[leftchick]

2. w: "Who cares what you think!"

[Stephanie]

7. i wonder whatever happened to that guy

he was one of the first to get the real GWB to reveal itself in public.

[City Lights]

3. Sadly, Stephanie, he has no trouble sleeping unless he's without his

designer pillow. He's a soul less bastard. Screw him and the Dick of Death he rode in on.

[Stephanie]

13. agreed

sadly, he will never have an ounce of empathy for those whose lives he's ruined.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. I'll feel more empathy for the soldiers when they themselves

start protesting this thing. Very few seem to be speaking out about it, even when they get out.

[w8liftinglady]

9. Read this,then judge.

...and note the date
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0302-04.htm

[uppityperson]

10. damn.

There is such a pressure on them to not talk, to stay part of the closest group they may ever be or have been a part of. While I understand having to make military people "uniform", it really rankles how they do it and what all the outcomes are. How can you ask young men and women to do what they do without depressing their humanity? How can they get it back? It all hurts.

[Warpy]

5. Lance Corporal Smith has an astonishingly good prognosis

because he is getting the best rehab in the world, which the VA still provides.

A year from now, he'll have a prosthetic piece in his skull and you may think he's a little odd, but you'll never guess he lost part of his brain.

As for the giggling turd in the lower three pictures, the prognosis is grim. Stupid is forever.

[Aviation Pro]

6. Here's another guy who was shot in the head by the enemy....

They even got a picture of the shooter:



...oh, never mind.

[w8liftinglady]

8. I'm glad the photos are starting to be published.

[Straight Shooter]

11. Is it just me, or does Lance Corporal Smith look like he's about 15 years old?

Eat lots and lots and lots of ribs, bush. They are really bad for your arteries. Don't forget to chew the bones.

[Stephanie]

12. Poor baby.

It's just unbelievable.