Iraq Civil War #10 – Day 44
Like the image I posted back on , what seems to bring the most connection and poignancy to a situation most of us have grown numb to, are pictures that are as essential as they are simple. As the latest evolution in the unrecognized Shiite civil war, American forces...
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Blowing Up The Surge
Perhaps the signature impression of the Iraq occupation -- When it's all said and done (sometime within the next hundred years), the signature impression of the Iraq occupation could very well be the car carcas. At this point, however, what could possibly distinguish one more crippled hulk from another?
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American Bombing Of Sadr City: Like Qana, But Without The Attention?
Now that the U.S. -- desperately attempting to protect the Green Zone, and avoid a Saigon-style evacuation -- is actively bombing Sadr City, what is the difference between what the Americans are doing now, and the Israeli's did in Qana during the Lebanon war two years ago?
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Green Zone Fireworks
Isn't it curious why WAPO fails to describe, let alone even mention, those projectiles below the helicopter?
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Afghan Update: A Running Metaphor
U.S. takes on Afghanistan. U.S. takes eye off ball. President Karzai reduced to mayor of Kabul. Afghan soldiers scatter during national military parade during weekend assassination attempt on "the mayor."
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How A War Out-Of-Sight Becomes A War Out-Of-Mind
Dana Milbank's Thursday Washington Sketch is a must read. It details how the Pentagon is visually Journalists were held 50 yards from the service, separated from the mourning party by six or seven rows of graves, and staring into the sun and penned in by a yellow rope.... "There...
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Iraq Civil War – #5 (Day 13): The Reality Barrier
Although the uprising that took place two weeks ago in Basra has been soft-peddled by the media, the Administration and even Clinton and Obama -- or simply attributed to trouble making by Iran by way of the evil Mr. al-Sadr (even though it was Iran that pulled the parties...
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General Love
In light of his narrative, I find yesterday's WIR story previewing General Petraeus's testimony to Congress this week as frankly mind-blowing. Having enabled the ethnic cleansing of this country, pacified the Sunnis through bribery (with no resulting structural change and no end in sight), and then claimed credit for...
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Iraq Civil War – #5: And, Not To Mention The Green Zone
Could you imagine the fallout here at home if Western photojournalists were allowed to work inside the Green Zone and actually documented the deaths of American civilians that have taken place there in the past few days?
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Iraq Civil War – #4 (Day 4): The Mighty U.S. Trained And Supported Iraqi Army
If the U.S. general public was tuning in at all to the current goings-on in Iraq, this image alone could blow a major hole in the Administration's rationale for being there.
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Iraq Civil War – #3 (Day 4): Ganging Up
Look for the Administration to vigorously cover-up the Iraqi Government's power play and (rhetorically, as well as literally) attempt to nail the Mahdi, although more for face-saving purposes than anything else.
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Iraq Civil War – #2 (Day 3): Two Georges Up In Flames
Finally, a news photo that illuminates the politics of the current Iraqi firestorm rather than the wrenching, but mostly non-explanatory wailing and corpse images.
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Iraq Civil War – #1 (Day 2): Deathly Simple
How clean and simple really, just one more Mahdi evil-doer on his way to paradise.
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4000
5 years. 4,000 U.S. military dead. More Iraqis lost than under Saddam's entire rule. While the media and the political establishment somehow refuse to look at the overall picture, the photographer can't miss it.
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Before I Could Explain
I saw this yesterday and, compared to almost any image and accompanying description I think I've seen, this says everything one needs to know about Cheney/Bush's Iraq war.
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Your Turn: Halo
Bush Defends Iraq War in Speech (NYT) (image: Gerald Herbert/Associated Press. Washington. March 19, 2008.
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Saving Face
For it's coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, the NYT is using the platform of its new Baghdad Bureau blog to "save some face" through key images and recollections.
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