Playing off the old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words, writer Garret Keizer pens [and speaks] a thousand words on the body-pile at Abu Ghraib:
"Nothing in this picture is more telling than the upraised thumb of the standing soldier. Everything else in the picture is subsumed in that thumb. Much else is subsumed there also: the gusto of the beer commercial, the gung-ho posture of the action film, the vulgarity of a hundred in-your-face bumper-stickers, the jingoistic rhetoric of a thousand September 11th commemorations—the whole rah-rah, “go for it” attitude of the self-styled American ace. We are told that a thumbs-up meant mercy for the fallen in Roman gladiatorial contests. Other authorities say it meant death. In America it means that mercy and death are up to us. Because either you’re with us or against us. Because we’re number one."
[Mother Jones]
all brown fucks should be cusified, and buried with pigs!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: antichrist | May 08, 2006 at 00:35