What the rest of the world watched on Inauguration Day

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/01/mai05022.html


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Subject: From Where I Stand: a must read on bush, death, and a child

BBC news announced that the picture was spreading across Europe like a brushfire that morning, featured from one major newspaper to another, served with coffee and Danish from kitchen table to kitchen table in one country after another. I watched, while Inauguration Day dawned across the Atlantic, as the Irish up and down the aisle on the train from Killarney to Dublin, narrowed their eyes at the picture, shook their heads silently and slowly over it, and then sat back heavily in their seats, too stunned into reality to go back to business as usual -- the real estate section, the sports section, the life-style section of the paper.

Here was the other side of the inauguration story. No military bands played for this one. No bulletproof viewing stands could stop the impact of this insight into the glory of force. Here was an America they could no longer understand. The contrast rang cruelly everywhere.

What the rest of the world watched on Inauguration Day (National Catholic Reporter)

Rex E.
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http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/

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The picture on the front page of The Irish Times was a large four-color picture of a small Iraqi girl. Her little body was a coil of steel. She sat knees up, cowering, screaming madly into the dark night. Her white clothes and spread hands and small tight face were blood-spattered. The blood was the blood of her father and mother, shot through the car window in Tal Afar by American soldiers while she sat beside her parents in the car, her four brothers and sisters in the back seat.

A series of pictures of the incident played on the inside page, as well. A 12-year-old brother, wounded in the fray, falls face down out of the car when the car door opens, the pictures show. In another, a soldier decked out in battle gear, holds a large automatic weapon on the four children, all potential enemies, all possible suicide bombers, apparently, as they cling traumatized to one another in the back seat and the child on the ground goes on screaming in her parent's blood.

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and america is going to Super Bowl and have lots of fun

who cares, it was only a girl

[Mad_Dem_X]

1. Sweet Jesus, please forgive us

That's all I can say...:cry:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. here are pictures of the little girl..and i posted this last saturday.....

but it is in the archives and needs to be posted again and again......thanks

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. 21st century Kim Phuk?

Inaction is complicity, Had enough yet ameriKKKa? Have a nice day.

[sdfernando]

4. Didn't watch it, never will again.

I didn't plan on watching the chimp seated anyway. I was at work and my sister called to let me know my mother had died. So Jan 20th will forever be a sad day for me...evenmore so because * was seated as president for another 4 years. Sad day for me, for the country, and for the entire world.

[Tsiyu]

5. The only way to stop this insanity is to be brave enough

to expose it. Print that picture out and paste the world with it.

If the MSM refuse to show the truth, screw them. We don't need them. Way back before newspapers and TV stations and radio, the people were the MSM.

Go back there, everyone who can. Be the town crier.