I just can't watch anymore.

[flamin lib]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1809786

Sorry Ava and apologies to the rest of the talented people making these presentations. I just can’t watch this stuff anymore.

I had a nightmare a week ago that still haunts me and keeps me awake. I saw children standing in front of me. Maybe 8 or 10 years old. They held out their arms to me and tried to embrace me but just faded away when they touched me. Suddenly I’m sitting on a hardwood floor covered by a sheet in a sort of tent. It’s dark and I can just see a reflection of light off the wood planks. The floor is wet. I’m feeling around in the dark trying to find my out of the sheet. My hands feel sticky and I raise them to my face. I smell blood. I’m covered in it, dripping from my hair, the smell choking me. I panic and scurry around on hands and knees trying to get out of the sheet and away from the blood. I feel things under me, soft things. Body parts. Broken arms and severed feet. That’s when I woke up.

In my almost 60 years I have never had a dream so real.

I just can’t watch this stuff anymore. I’m sorry.

[Pharaoh]

I'm with you lib

I gave up watching most of those, they need to be directed towards the warmongers, We already "get it".....

[Horse with no Name]

1. Don't feel bad

I can't watch it either.:hug:

[cal04]

2. Hug for you flamin lib. I could never watch that

in my 50 years of life

:hug:

[Arkansas Granny]

3. No need to be sorry. I can't look at them anymore, either.

When I see those pictures, all I can think about are my own children, my grandchildren, the little children I see at the store or riding their bicycles. I can't look at any more pictures of dead babies or bleeding children.

[AndyA]

4. I'm going to pass on watching as well.

I know the images must be horrible.

Enough of the Republicans: the party of war, death, destruction, and discrimination. I have had enough!

[knowbody0]

5. we ARE all drenched in the blood of innocents

these things done in OUR name.

I'm two years away from 60 myself and remember the "moment" for me was the little girl running naked covered with burns from our "bombs" in Vietnam. this was the actual face of the dreaded "communist", an evil threat to our security?

The images of ameriKa's wake burned in my mind pervade all of my thoughts. i look into the sparkling eyes of my grandson and imagine him running in terror.

your dream was profound and all ameriKans should experience it. for reasons i cannot imagine, msm has been pounding us all with dead and wounded civilians - not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan EVER, why this?

i had so hoped the lessons of Vietnam would change the insanity of our military aggressions and that by now we would be leading peacemakers. the greatest sadness of my life, my legacy is this corrupt and immoral government spreading death and destruction in the name of "freedom and democracy"

i pray every day that this is the darkness before the dawn.

[patrice]

6. I'm with you flamin lib, I don't look at that sort of thing either.

I'm having some trouble with Depression.

That doesn't mean that this kind of information doesn't have its uses. On the contrary, I think one of the biggest reasons everyone just followed George into this HELL, is that they have a very sanitized concept, an abstraction, of what War IS. So this information helps.

But I do have a problem with once you've educated them, how do you get them to progress further along in their moral reasoning, to the ability to put themselves more fully in the victim's place, to hypothesize about how our victims feel and what the morality of the situation is from their perspective.

[rhiannon55]

7. Sadly, the people who need to see these awful pictures

refuse to look at them, dismissing them as "enemy propaganda". Those of us who care, who rage for the obscene, senseless killing to stop, and who have horrible dreams about broken, dying children are the only ones who are willing to witness such horrible images.

Until we can't anymore.

:cry:

[Zodiak]

8. I look from time to time

Expecially when I run across 30-50 DUers in a row posting that they cannot look, but they want to know what happened (like those two soldiers who were captured and killed in Haditha). I used to work in a gross anatomy lab, so I am somewhat used to it. However, I quit that job because I truly never could handle it in my sleep. The faces bothered me.......but I digress.

The pictures serve a purpose, albeit for us on the side of peace, they do not serve to covince us of much. The true purpose of the pictures for our side is to show them to those who do not promote peace so they can see the faces of the people killed by their politics.

[MissWaverly]

9. I do look at the pictures

I see little children with their faces blown off, why do I look, I do so because when I look at
George Bush and others pompously intoning that we must stay the course for the good it will do; then I say, no way in h*ll; it hardens my resolve against the rhetoric; all those well reasoned
nuanced and grammatically correct arguments mean nothing against the body of one little child
wrapped in a minnie mouse comforter.