Not An Animal?
Via Crooks and Liars comes this excellent catch by the folks at Virtual Pus of a Yahoo News photo:
May 25, 2005
Less human than human
Filed under: War Machine, Vast Rightwing Hypocrisy ? PusBoy @ 3:30 pm
Yahoo! News Photos
“A U.S. Marine writes an identification number on the forehead of an Iraqi man detained during a search in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Wednesday, May 25, 2005.
Has our military learned nothing from Vietnam? Are we so goddamned arrogant that we cannot see that people don?t take too kindly to things like dehumanization and humiliation? Do we have to fucking write on a POW?s fucking forehead with a fucking Sharpie?
Here?s an idea. Sticky name-tags. You could write the number on the name-tag and STICK IT ON THIS DUDE?S FUCKING SHIRT OR ARM!
Goddammit, what?s wrong with us?”
Well I might hazard a guess. Let me see… is it that your government is a bunch of amoral, inhuman, sadistic, ill-educated thugs and you don’t care enough to overthrow it? Or is it just those damned liberal atheists again, blaming our brave god-fearing troops and pissing on the flag?
You decide.
