That is the message that the Washington Post has for it’s readers.
The images are contained in thousands of pages of NCIS investigative documents obtained by The Washington Post. Post editors decided that most of the images are too graphic to publish…
The descriptions of some of the photos do indeed sound brutal. A brutality the people in the pictures had no choice to avoid.
The people of America have a right, indeed they have a duty, to see what transpires in their name. It is all too easy to think of war in the abstract when you do not hear the planes flying overhead. Do not feel the earth shake and the air cloud as your neighbours die. Do not wonder where you will get food and water for you family or if indeed any of you will live to need it.
Photos help to pierce through that cloud of complacency.
For more information read Media refuses to print grisly photos
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Call me weak, but I couldn’t bear reading the description of the photos. I was already against the war, I don’t need to be convinced.
That said, I do want the namby pambies and lemmings that let their country stumble blindly into war, to have their hearts broken, and maybe then they might do something. Those who actively supported the war and continue to, there’d be no getting through to them. Not even if they’re like me, who was made to think of his own boy and how much he loves his helicopter pajamas.