I think the judicious use of it, as we have done so here only 3 or 4 times, is a duty. War sucks and people need to be exposed to it.

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and I don't think I said the Agonist favored that. I hope at any rate my post led you to read the BBC piece. I just think I got my own images of the execution quite clearly because he wrote so well about it!

Once in a while there is an unforgettable photo or video that changes
how people in the US look at a situation. The child running nakedand screaming down the road with napalm on her was for Vietnam, a lot more than the close up shot in the head to the suspected Viet Cong prisoner.

I don't think there has been a picture or a video that has brought about that kind of powerful change of view yet in the Iraq war.

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The media climate has been hostile to their display until recently. You couldn't even show photos of flag-draped coffins a couple of years ago.

There was a widely distributed(at the time in newspapers at least) Iraqi photo more than a year ago of a little girl standing in blood whose parents had just been killed at a checkpoint when their car didn't slow down. It made me sick. But it didn't resonate for more than a week.

What are you saying should be done?

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those galvanizing photos in the near future with the 'surge.' Call it a 6th sense.

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