U.S. troops traded Iraq photos for porn access

lebanies

Wild Horses
I have found a site on the internet that shows the crimes done on the iraqi people ,if you want to know more please press on this link ,it is from the cnn:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/28/web.photos/index.html

I found the site that conbtain these images,but they are cruel,barbaric and un human.
Idont think that sensitve people are allowed to go in it.
should i post the link here,or that would be cruel from me?
 

vimothy

yurp
CAIR are apologists for Jihad, and Jihad doesn't give the slightest shade of a shit about the international rules of war, or even international law and treaties.
 

bruno

est malade
i saw those pictures. while incredibly disturbing (i still can't get some of those images out of my head) they showed war as it really is, cutting through the sanitized gloss of mass media.

i think it was a good trade-off, an escape from the inferno of war in exchange for a bit of the reality of that war reaching the home front.
 

lebanies

Wild Horses
well they appeared on a different site but i am worried that they might be disturbing.cause i ve seen a lot in my life ,brutal things, but this is different,a true massacre.barbaric.
 

bruno

est malade
this is different,a true massacre.barbaric.
well, no one has figured out a way of waging a war without killing, destroying and having innocent people suffer.. yet. and as vimothy points out not everyone abides by conventions either.

what happened here was that soldiers took pictures of charred bodies, people with their heads blown off, etc, in exchange for access to pictures of nude women. the issue with these pictures was that they were only of insurgents (the enemy) and that some of the posters described them as trophies. which was brutal because everyone expected 'the boys' to somehow value life more. soldiers themselves were ambivalent about the whole thing, indulging in then apologising for their behaviour and at the same time accusing those that were safely at home of being blind to what they were actually out to do, which was to kill. so it turns out the exchange was as important as the images and both these things were unacceptable to whoever it was that had the site shut down. the connection to porn is beside the point.
 

tht

akstavrh
this in particular is one of the most (treading eggshells) semiologically rich photos i've seen in a long time, the sort of thing bataille would have had on his desk

Code:
http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/09/dead_iraqi7.jpg
 

lebanies

Wild Horses
some thing wrong

There must be something wrong?too few visitors for the link i posted.
should i make it in a thread in its own?
 
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