children are burning in Fallujah...what a wonderful world

[mopaul]

while heavy fire rips apart women and children in iraq, we now bring you this soothing commercial for tranquilizers, with tony bennett singing louis armstrong's 'what a wonderful world'.....

[bigtree]

1. didn't they get the fliers we dropped?

[tnlefty]

2. I suppose I should be glad that it's tranquilizers and not potency

enhancing pills.

Sad, sad state of affairs.

[ewagner]

3. That's just surreal!

I don't think Francis Ford Coppala could hve written and directed what you just described.

Down the rabbit hole

Through the looking glass.

We're definitely not in Kansas anymore........

[redqueen]

4. Thanks

SO far I was coasting on fury. Now gut-wrenching grief has replaced it. No amount of tears will take back those bombs and bring back those children.

God forgive us.

[dedhed]

5. Great...

Now I have a mental image of Fallujah burning, with Louis Armstrong singing in the background. Oliver Stone... get out of my head!!!

:o

[KC]

6. And

don't forget the republican ads with Bush saying...blah, blah....
and I approve this message.

KC

[stopthegop]

7. are there any actual reports of casualties in the city? n/t

[mopaul]

8. hell no

we just see the green night vision image of fallujah exploding and black smoke in the sky. the smoke looks white. but it's a long shot from a mile or two away. they won't show any blood or pieces of people while we are preparing dinner.

[stopthegop]

11. so we don't know who was killed....thanks...eom

[rumguy]

16. some things you just know....

[maddezmom]

34. might want to read this: In Falluja, Finding a Place for the Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/international/middleeast/27CND-FALL.html

people are dying, boys, girls, men and women....not to mention our troops.

[charlie]

46. Don't bother with this guy

Search his posts.

[DrWeird]

47. How about I show you some pictures of dead fallujah children?

Hmm? Would that make you happy?

I don't have any that are actually on fire, like the title implied. But I've got pictures of them dismembered, with third degree burns all over their bodies, with their heads smashed in and brains splattered all over the ground. Courtesy of the people who support this war.

[Skittles]

28. no stg

we bomb the f*** out of them but there are no casualties

[redqueen]

30. Thanks for the insight, Skittles

:yourock:

I deleted my direct reply. :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. I withheld comment even though cracks like that are par for the course

for that poster..*yeah..just come up with a liberal sounding handle*

[TeeYiYi]

9. Families allowed back in for the onslaught . . .

Iraqi families wait to be allowed back into their hometown of Falluja


Children are frisked at the entrance to Falluja

More: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

TYY :cry:

[mopaul]

10. suffer the little children, to come unto me

blessed are the peacemakers, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

[redqueen]

12. Oh, God!

WHY?! WHY!!!!!!!!!

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[TeeYiYi]

18. More images of the innocents . . .

A metal detector is used to search a child before being allowed back into Falluja


Iraqis look at the body of a two-year-old child, killed in the Falluja fighting

More: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

TYY :cry:

[redqueen]

21. For the love of God

How does that soldier feel? Searching that tot? How does he feel now, knowing what is happening where she is?

[mopaul]

22. it strains my desire to support our troops

when i know they are committing atrocities and war crimes

[redqueen]

25. I have to hold out hope

that there are many who are disgusted, but are afraid of speaking out.

Not that that means much, but it's better than believing they're all brainwashed monsters.

:cry:

[doni_georgia]

42. Why the hell are they letting ANYONE back into that city???

If they truly cared about the civilian population, they wouldn't a let a soul in. This is criminal. That child looks like my five year old. I really can't stand this. What have we become?

[redqueen]

43. Good question

I hope someone in our gutless, complicit media-whore press will have the sense to ask it.

[leftchick]

26. They Let These Beautiful Babies in Too this morning....

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[TeeYiYi]

31. kick

TYY :cry:

[Kanary]

32. We need to make huge posters of those pictures

of all those beautiful faces, and the aftermath, and march with them, just like the Catholics do with their abortion signs.

Turn about is fair play, and it's time to get started on it.

This is just sooooooo SICK!

Kanary

[redqueen]

33. Beautiful idea, Kanary

Let their deaths not be in vain.

:kick:

[Desertrose]

13. CNN live- saw our soldiers shooting at "movement" in Fallujah

shooting rounds of ammo at "MOVEMENT"?

:wtf:

I can't believe they are showing this!! No dead bodies coming home in covered caskets but they show us US troops shooting at "movement" in a someone's home in someone's town?!!! This is beyond surreal! Are we to watch this and feel bad for our troops being in danger of "movement" in peoples homes and so they f'in fire a few rounds into it? How do they know what they are killing? How can we even imagine we have any righteous reason to be there doing this??

For those who can...imagine how hard we'd fight back if the scenario was reversed!!!

Damn...I can't believe the gall and utter insanity of bushco.
damn I am so ashamed of my country....damn.

Tucker Carlson just said we are having a "rough patch" in Iraq.....I am now laughing hysterically......goddess help us all.

DR

[mopaul]

15. tucker's rough patch

he should grab a fucking rifle and mince right over there and fight!

[radwriter0555]

14. They're LIBERATED dammit. You people don't know ANYTHING...

You keep suggesting that death is a BAD thing, while the bushistas know the truth! This KIND of liberation is a really really GOOD thing.

[mopaul]

17. what a wonderful world

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.



LOUIS ARMSTRONG

[TeeYiYi]

19. Imagine . . .

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

John Lennon

TYY

[GreenArrow]

44. "it's a beautiful world"

"It's a Beautiful World" -- DEVO

Its a beautiful world we live in
A sweet romantic place
Beautiful people everywhere
The way they show they care
Makes me want to say
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
For you, for you, for you

Its a wonderful time to be here
Its nice to be alive
Wonderful people everywhere
The way they comb their hair
Makes me want to say
Its a wonderful place
Its a wonderful place
Its a wonderful place
For you, for you, for you

Hey tell me what I see
Boy and girl with the new clothes on
You can shake it to me all night long hey hey

Its a beautiful world we live in
A sweet romantic place
Beautiful people everywhere
The way they show they care
Makes me want to say
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
For you, for you, for you
Its not for me
(Its a beautiful world)For you (Its a beautiful world)For you (Its a beautiful world)For you (Its a beautiful world)Not me (Its a beautiful world...

[mopaul]

20. look at this child..

....i wish i could ease her pain with morphine, but there probably is none there. but my tax dollars will see her burned

[redqueen]

36. Anyone that condones us bombing civilians in Iraq

and yet professes to be a Christian is in for a very rude shock one day.

These pictures stay with me and wear on my conscience, and won't let me stay in this murderous country much longer.

[KoKo]

23. They've crossed the line into a sick hell and they are dragging us with

them.. This just cannot go on. America needs help.

They are totally "Out of Control." :-( :scared:

[anarchy1999]

24. I was on the computer last night and heard said commercial in background.

I thought by chance it was from last year and TakeBackTheMedia. Too much to hope for.

For those of you that missed it last year:

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/iraqkids.html

It makes me cry every time.

Screw their f'ing anti-depressant!

[myomy]

27. Ah yes, the price of liberation.

Sick,sick,sick

[anarchy1999]

29. kick back to front page.

n/t

[symbolman]

37. I made this a year ago - before we attacked.

"Baghdad Snapshot Action"
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/iraqkids.html

this will hurt.. music by Louie Armstrong

[anarchy1999]

38. see response #24

Makes me cry everytime, caused me to unleash on the owner (pro-war) of the company I worked for, the first time I viewed it last year.

[symbolman]

39. Sheesh

I hope you didn't get Fired for that!

I did that one at 3am.. I HAD to.. I was tearing up the whole time..

I hate these monsters.

Bush is not considered a Human being by me anymore.

He is a Beast.

[redqueen]

40. God bless you for doing that

I cannot even imagine how painful it would be to sort through it, editing.

I agree with you about bush - he is most definitely a Beast.

[anarchy1999]

45. No, I was not fired, though I should have been.

There were several witnesses to me telling him he was uninformed and wrong. The office was quiet the rest of the day. I did quit shortly after.

I had sent him link to your video and he said something really stupid the day bombs started to fall. I blew a fuse.

Thanks again.

[onethatcares]

41. all of us people, everywhere, every color,

want to have our kids grow to be,

fuck, I can't even express what I feel, I've got tears running and can't imagine or want to, what it would be to have my grandkids blown apart for this fucking fucking war that didn't have to be.