Death and carnage are sooo inspiring!
Huffington Post journo and Queerty chum Nico Pitney made this nightmarish mosaic of John McCain and George W. Bush using faces of the 4,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq. Writes Pitney: “In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation.”
He also notes that he couldn’t obtain photos of all the soldiers, so he did have to use some duplicates. Regardless, it’s a pretty disturbing piece.
Matt
I think the only thing this piece is missing is Hillary in it since she did vote for the war.
Chris
Matt, that’s just stupid.
Matt
Chris, Why? I mean she is just as responsible as McCain or Bush. She voted for the war originally. She has voted for increases in funding for it. I mean seriously the only better way to depict this Mosaic is to have Bush, his administration, and all the members of congress who supported this war pictured.
oakling
Well, sure,Hilary voted for the war, but if you’re going to include everyone who has voted for the war or voted for increases in funding… what he should do is make a mosaic using THOSE hundreds of tiny faces to draw a picture of coffins or of carnage in Iraq or something. This is clearly meant to be a picture targeting the current administration and its party.
Matt
Good point Oakling. I couldn’t agree with you more.
Right
And to that end, you would have to include Obama since his voting record on the war is parallel to Hillary’s after the initial authorization, which he was not in a position to vote for. And let’s not forget that he later said he would have voted for it if he did have a vote in the matter.
Bill Perdue
We are long past the time when we can describe the US invasion of Iraq as war. It’s genocide.
The number of Iraqis murdered as a result of the US invasion is over one million. Several million have been displaced internally or fled to neighboring countries. Their infrastructure, deliberately destroyed by US policy, has not been repaired. The US government’s purposeful policy of divide and rule is centered on arming Kurdish, Sunnis and Shiite forces and simultaneously fermenting secessionist civil war and communal war between ethnic and religious groups.
The US investment of billions in permanent US military bases and over $750 million dollars in a colonial embassy complex is a clear signal that the war is not going to end soon. It’s delusional to think that McCain, Obama or Clinton will quickly and totally withdraw US troops. In addition to the 4,000 GI’s who’ve died for Texaco, et al, 29,314 GI’s have been wounded, 13,170 of them seriously. The suicide rate among active duty and returned GI’s is soaring, and the armed forces and the VA are cynically denying adequate treatment to repair the physical and emotional devastation of Iraq/Afghanistan vets.
The war is about oil and nothing else.
Republican Senator CHARLES HAGEL: “People say we’re not fighting for oil. Of course we are. They talk about America’s national interest. What the hell do you think they’re talking about? We’re not there for figs.” (Speaking at Catholic University, Sept. 24, 2007)
Former Federal Reserve Chairman ALAN GREENSPAN, in his book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World: “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil.”
Democratic Senator JOHN TESTER: “We’re still fighting a war in Iraq and people who are honest about it will admit we’re there over oil.” (Associated Press, Sept. 24, 2007)
General JOHN ABIZAID: retired commander of CENTCOM: “Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that.” (Speaking at Stanford University, Oct. 13, 2007)
IF Bush and Cheney are the architects of the genocide the Democrats are its enablers. They persist in funding the killing and looting of the Iraqi economy by voting for Bush’s war budget. Voting for a Democrat or a Republican is voting for the genocide.
Robert-Chicago
To “Right”: I put your username in quotes, since I don’t think you could be more wrong. Do you have a reliable source for your statement that Obama “would have voted for it if he did have a vote in the matter”?
To the best of my knowledge, Obama has said no such thing.
jason
Imagine what it would look like if every Iraqi civilian was included…such color and detail…all those pixels….
chadnnocal
Hi Robert-Chicago, I think it’s important that we, as individuals, view facts and make our own decisions based on facts. While the accuracy of the statement made by “Right” cannot likely be corroborated, there is a pattern in Barack’s voting record that shows there is reason for concern with his experience and confidence. What concerns me most is the over 100 instances when he entered a Not Voting, Excused, Absent, or Present. This can be viewed on
http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490
It looks to me like the conversation we should be having is Where was Barack when all of this voting was going going on in the Senate and why did not vote on the 12/18/2007 Iraq Withdrawal Amendment?
Peter Pan
In march 2003 I met an American soldier in a gay bar in Cologne, Germany. He told me he would leave the next day for Iraq. I told him that the world did not want this invasion of a sovereign country by the US and that the invasion was also not sanctioned by the UN. He, quite loudly and arrogantly, told me whether I wanted a new Hitler on this planet? I told him that we already had another Hitler and that his name was George Bush!
He than said the ‘war’ would be over in six months time anyway and we would meet again over a beer in the same bar in six months time and laugh about our conversation.
He then left the bar with an acquaintance of mine who told me, last year, that Eric got killed in Iraq (27). So I guess his photograph might be one of the 4,000 used in the picture to depict ‘Hitler’ Bush. What an irony!
Robert-Chicago
Hello Chadnnocal: I whole-heartedly agree about making decisions based upon facts. The problem is that “Right” wasn’t stating a fact, but rather, a mistruth. Why should any of us put up with statements that are put out as facts, but are not able to be documented?
As for the website that you link to, if you look at Hillary Clinton’s voting record on the same site, she has over 100 ‘Not Voting, Excused, Absent, or Present’ occurrences as well. So, what’s your point?
As for the Iraq Withdrawal Amendment of 12/18/07, both Clinton and Obam were Cosponsors of this amendment and neither voted. What’s your point?
If you’re thinking about Hillary Clinton’s “experience,” what experience does she really have? Her delusional remembrances about her ‘dangerous’ trip to Bosnia? Her ‘help’ in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, which, people who were part of the process can’t recall? Her flip-flopping on not campaigning for the Florida/Michigan delegates, but now claiming them?
I was never more supportive of an administration than BIll Clinton’s, with Hillary at his side. However, I am very happy that people are finally seeing Hillary Clinton as the Tanya Harding of this election, willing to do anything to get what she feels she deserves.
Perhaps I’m presuming too much to think you’re supporting Clinton if you’re feeling shaky about Obama. Please tell me you’re not supporting someone far worse.