images from around the world.

[Sxotty]

It sure is liberating, you can get pictures of those killed by the US on US news stations, it is certainly nice to be from a country that is not a hell hole with propaganda being the only medium of communication.

This is true!!! From CNN:


Pascal since you are from Brasil, I take it you missed my point (because perhaps your english is not quite as good as mine), I was acknowledging the picture was real, I was saying in the U.S. we get both sides of the picture on the news (unless you watch FOX lol don't get angry guys). So my point is that yes that picture and many others are on the US news all the time

see what I mean?

 

[Gollum]

I was saying in the U.S. we get both sides of the picture on the news (unless you watch FOX lol don't get angry guys).

Hehe, your stab would be funnier if it wasn't for the fact that Foxnews is the most watched news network in the US at the moment AFAIK. Call me a pessimist, but if I saw a reporter saying "soon the bad guys will all be dead - D, E, A, D - dead!" on my nation's most popular newschannel, I'd be pretty irritated. Now there's a guy who should get fired for bad "reporting" just as Arnett did for his stupid interview on Iraqi TV...

 

[RussSchultz]

Fox news does have the best embedded reporters(excepting Geraldo), but their idiot anchors (excepting Brit Hume) are flat out warmongers, particularly Shephard Smith. Their morning show is so smarmy its sickening. And I'm (generally) a republican!

 

[MrsSkywalker]

About the images on page 3 of this thread...

Is anyone else taken aback by how old the children look? Look at the wrinkles and "worry lines" around their eyes. I look at them and it breaks my heart. Those kids have had to live such hard lives. Those boys in the marketplace...I'd say they are probably about ten years old or so....yet look at the boy with the cigarettes...his eyes look like those of an old man! They have seen so much saddness, so much horror. As a mom, I just want to weep for them.

pascal (and all of the protesters) look at their faces. THAT'S what we are over there fighting for. You say we should not be over there fighting for them. Fine. You go over there and look into the 50 year old eyes of a child and tell them. Go ahead. Tell them your great vision of the rest of the world continuing to ignore their plight in the name of "peace". Tell them that you don't care about how many of their lives have been lost, because you feel it's more important that none of our soldiers die doing their jobs. You say you want peace? Do they look like they have ever known peace?? Do they look like your blessed "diplomatic means" have worked??

My humble apologies, epicstruggle, for veering slightly off topic .

 

[Sxotty]

Even Fox news really isn't so bad because their facts are usually true.

The times I have seen them incorrect recently was because they rushed top get stuff up before others and info was not complete, I don't mind that so much.

Opinions can be whatever they want but I wish reporters would tell you more facts and less opinions on all the networks.

 

[Sabastian]

Attack on Karbala
Units from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division fire missiles at the Iraqi Republican Guard near Karbala, central Iraq, early Wednesday.

 

[Sabastian]

Before the bombs
A recent but undated handout image released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Defense shows an alleged terrorist training camp run by the radical Muslim group Ansar al-Islam in northern Iraq before coalition air strikes.

After
Airstrikes mauled the alleged terrorist camp.

 

[Sabastian]

Spreading the word
A cellular phone in the West Bank town of Hebron on Wednesday displays a mobile message with the image of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein saying, in Arabic: "God saves my soul for you, God destroys America."

 

[epicstruggle]

source:foxnews.com

A U.S. Marine holds a baby as the child's mother attempts to pass through a checkpoint at Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq on Wednesday, April. 2, 2003

 

[epicstruggle]

source:cnn.com

The old tires protected the torturer while the victim stood on a wet floor and was electrocuted, a BBC reporter was told.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/02/sprj.irq.iraq.torture/index.html

 

[pascal]

A soldier takes tea with an Iraqi
The British soldier is from 2CS.
Photo: Dan Chung

 

[epicstruggle]

source:msnbc

Allied portrait
An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter stands guard with a picture of U.S. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney plastered on his quiver in the Kurd-controlled town of Kifri, some 130 kilometers southeast of Kirkuk, on Wednesday. Airstrikes in and around Kirkuk have intensified, forcing Iraqi troops back and allowing Kurdish fighters to advance.

A wife grieves

Amanda Jordan is comforted by her stepfather, Jay Paretzky, during the funeral for her husband, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Philip A. Jordan, at St. Patrick Cemetery Wednesday in Enfield, Conn. Jordan was killed in action in an ambush near Nasariya, Iraq.

Losing a son

In her kitchen near Sherwood, Ore., an anguished Rosary Contreras talks to a friend Tuesday night about the death of her son, Marine Capt. Aaron J. Contreras. Contreras and two other U.S. servicemen died when their UH-1 Huey helicopter crashed Sunday at a forward supply and refueling point in southern Iraq, the Defense Department said.

 

[horvendile]

From some Swedish newspapers' websites, with my translations of comments:

American marine in Numaniyah, southeast of Bagdad.
(www.dn.se)

An American ammunition load was hit and caught fire during combat at Kerbala on Wednesday.
(www.svd.se)

An FA-18 Hornet with one man was shot down in Iraq (...)
(www.sydsvenskan.se)

Rapid advance. During Thursday, American forces advanced closer to Bagdad.
(www.aftonbladet.se)

On the hunt for the enemy. Iraqi villagers have gathered at the river Tigris to search for the missing pilot.
(www.vlt.se)

Well, that's a small sample.

 

[Sxotty]

Any one else notice that last pic looks like a painting?

I am not in any way saying it is false, just the lighting and stuff, makes it look alot like a painting kind of cool actually.

 

[Simon F]

Dude their packs are so freakin big, I saw some chick who was a marine and it looked like the pack weighed as much as she did.

One BBC report said that the British packs weighed (IIRC) 13 stone == 82 kgs.

 

[Simon F]

I was saying in the U.S. we get both sides of the picture on the news (unless you watch FOX lol don't get angry guys).

Hehe, your stab would be funnier if it wasn't for the fact that Foxnews is the most watched news network in the US at the moment AFAIK.

All I can say is that it is a relief to get BBC News 24 here.

 

[Humus]

Any one else notice that last pic looks like a painting?

I am not in any way saying it is false, just the lighting and stuff, makes it look alot like a painting kind of cool actually.

Which picture are you referring to? I can't see any picture that looks painted :?

 

[epicstruggle]

source:cnn

Friday, April 4, 2003
A Bradley fighting vehicle keeps watch over a burning fuel tank in a hangar at Saddam International Airport near Baghdad on Friday morning.

Hurray to our troops for taking the newly renamed "Bhagdad International Airport".
later,

 

[Sxotty]

From some Swedish newspapers' websites, with my translations of comments:

On the hunt for the enemy. Iraqi villagers have gathered at the river Tigris to search for the missing pilot.
(www.vlt.se)

Well, that's a small sample.

That picture looks painted, the way the light is very flat.

 

[Sabastian]

Welcome wagon
Staff Sgt Jack Coughlin from Boston, Mass., of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, jokes with Iraqi villagers Friday as his convoy moves north of Kut towards Baghdad.