Iraq: When Killing Becomes Personal [Photo Essay]

[babylonsister]

Iraq: When Killing Becomes Personal

By Nina Berman, AlterNet. Posted November 8, 2007.

Embedded photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson offers an unsanitized view of Iraq.

Pics here:

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/67035/

[Sabriel]

1. I know I should, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Anyone else having this problem?

I'm feeling guilty that I have the luxury of being able to avoid looking.

[babylonsister]

2. It's really not graphic imo, just great pics and haunting backgroud

'music' that gives you an idea what it must be like to be there.

[TahitiNut]

3. Viet Nam Vets be Warned: Chopper sounds

Few things, after this long, cause me to get that wrenching feeling in the gut and trigger "sense memory" of Viet Nam like the sound of a Huey or Chinook overhead. The soundtrack on this Flash video got me ... and the images, while hardly as graphic as they could be, well ...
:crazy: :scared:

[babylonsister]

4. Oh, man, sorry to anyone this might bother!

:hide: That never occurred to me.

[TahitiNut]

6. S'ok, luv. I'm a big boy. I don't expect to be wet-nursed.

Of course .... :evilgrin:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Here's more of Ashley Gilbertson's work.

http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/summer/gilbertson-last-photographs/