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What about the children?
(Glenn Becker, Online Journal, November 17, 2004)
It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But some pictures are worth more than a cumulative amount of syllables. Two such pictures come to mind while recently scanning the web for information about the occupation of Iraq. The first picture seemed innocent enough at first. As the web page was slowly loading on the computer screen, one could see the seemingly sleeping face of an angelic looking Iraqi child of less than a year of age. The sweet and innocent image of this lovely child, however, became a picture of gruesome horror as it finally loaded onto the monitor screen. The second picture I came across on the Internet was even more blunt. This image was of a 7-year old Iraqi boy with two bandaged stumps where his arms used to be, his burned upper torso was almost completely covered in salve, and the look on his face was one of, not shock, but the total terror and horror of realizing what had happened to him. We here in the U.S. had better start to look inside ourselves for the reasons as to why we continue to allow our government to perpetuate their greedy and destructive policies of hegemony. If we refuse to acknowledge the unlawful and carnage filled desires of these megalomaniacal beasts, the time will surely come when what is sown shall be reaped. "He that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword." And the future images on the Internet may very well be those of us, and our children.

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 6:15 PM