Iraq War Casualty Pictures

Disgust is far too gentle a word I feel for the citizens of the USA, Canada and Britain who have been illegally bombing and occupying Afghanistan for 11 years, 7 months and 18 days. When the citizens debate whether to continue tormenting the Afghans who did nothing to harm the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) countries, and further have no means to, the only issue citizens consider is Can we win? They almost never ask themselves deeper questions like:

• Why are we doing this?
• What do we hope to accomplish?
• How would things be different if we won or if we just came home?
• What are the benefits to us of this extended slaughter?
• What business have we in meddling in the internal affairs of a tiny impoverished country on the other side of the planet?
• What could possibly justify the cruelty we inflicted on the Afghan child burned in a NATO bombing in the photo to the right?
• Why are we willing to bankrupt our country in a pointless, endless war?

Since almost no one asks these questions and no politician ever answers them, I must presume the answers are shameful. What is it that motivates us?

1. We treat the war like an Olympic speed-skating event. We just can’t stand the shame of being held to a stalemate by a country much smaller and poorer than us, especially since we have the help of the largest and most advanced military on the planet. We we are butchering kids in the name of stubborn national pride.
2. We want a share of the spoils — Afghanistan’s lithium and Iraq’s oil.
3. We Canadians and Britons are cowards. We do it only because the Americans tell us to.
4. In North America, we manufacture almost nothing but weapons, so the war is just a cynical make-work program to pay off arms makers who bribe politicians and to create make-work jobs that don’t actually need doing.
5. We are bigots and sadists who love the idea of torturing Muslim children.

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 65)

Iraq War Pictures

Americans have a superstition, backed by law, that the bodies of Americans killed in war or their coffins must not be photographed. Oddly, the superstition does not apply to those they have killed. I see this law as a way to deceive the American people about the human costs of illegal wars. As a Canadian, the law does not apply to me. I feel a duty to punch Americans in the gut with such photos to persuade them to stop treating war as a football game.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 65)

Most Americans are in deep denial that their country would butcher children and civilians, routinely torture, or bomb homes. Yet nearly every American saw this live on CNN (Cable News Network) with his own eyes on 2003-03-20 when America did its Shock & Awe bombing of the residential sections of Baghdad on the opening day of the war. Granted, they did not see the blood spurting, but they saw apartments full of families being turned to rubble. Everyone knows perfectly well what happens when a bomb hits an apartment. Americans pretend the $2 trillion they borrowed for the war went for reconstruction. If that were so, every Iraqi would be living in a $400,000.00 USD mansion. That money clearly went for mayhem and destruction. Soldiers are trained and paid to kill, not build schools or hand out candy. America has behaved worse than Nazi Germany. Americans plug their ears and say lah lah lah as if that would erase their responsibility. How dare they claim to be a Christian nation!

Many Americans have written me convinced none of the casualties in the photos below could not possibly have been done by Americans. They seem to think American soldiers are in Iraq to act as police rather than killers. Consider. Iraqis have only IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) IED (Improvised Explosive Device) s) to fight with. Whereas only American have helicopters to drop people out of, white phosphorus to mummify them, napalm to cook them to a crisp, cluster bombs to shread them, DU (Depleted Uranium) etc. So if you see a white phosphorus victim, nobody but Americans could have done it.

Casualties of the Iraq War, American and Iraqi
	Modern medicine means that the ratio of American soldiers maimed/disabled/brain-damaged to killed is much higher than in previous wars.
Iraqi severed arm typical of image US soldiers trade for porn	According to Scoop, US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have posted on the Internet several hundred photographs of mutilated corpses from the real war in exchange for free on- line pornography.
A young man killed in the Iraq war.	A young Iraqi boy murdered then left to rot on the rocks.
Iraqi man beheaded with gunfire at an American checkpoint.	American Soldier showing a severed Iraqi arm hung in a mosque to terrorise the Iraqi resistance.
Fallujah white phosphorus chemical weapon victims
Both Americans and Iraqis do beheadings using bombs.
Dead American soldier with face blown off.
Dead American soldier with eye missing and part of face shot off.
Dead American soldier with a hole in the side of the body.
Bone exposed from charring
foot blown off
dead Iraqi
	shock & awe
	An Iraqi boy reacts after seeing his sister and both of his parents killed in the car, in Ramadi, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, 2005-01-05. Four Iraqi civilians were killed and two others were injured when U.S. soldiers opened fire.
	Bush had the woman fired who dared to take this photo of coffins being loaded each night in Kuwait for secret shipment back home. More. Bush does not count soldiers who die en route to hospital or in hospital in Germany as deaths. This means the true death count of American soldiers is over five times higher than Bush is reporting. In 2006 the Pentagon relented and has released some coffin photos such as these.
	It is illegal to take photographs of coffins of US soldiers, though in 2005-05 the military released some anonymous and undated photos. Bush wants to pretend nobody dies in his wars and to hide the true number of deaths.
	Not all the deaths are from bullets, napalm and white phosphorus. Some a come from deliberate starvation, denial of water and denial of sanitation.
	Check point
Burned corpse of American mercenary, a contractor for Blackwater security

There are suprisingly few pictures of the damage or the casualties of Gulf War I or the sanction bombings. Bush Sr. exercised strict censorship. Please pass on URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) of any photos that speak to the heart.

My opponents argue that I can’t prove precisely who was responsible for the carnage in any individual photo. My intent is not a criminal investigation of each incident but to show you just how horrible war in general is. It is no secret the USA has spent $300 billion on waging its war in Iraq, that it attacked unprovoked under false pretences and that it used weapons banned by the U.N., including napalm, cluster bombs, depleted uranium and white phosphorus. It also uses torture, rape, and attack dogs on children. The pictures on and linked to by my website don’t come even close to depicting the true hell president Bush has created in his bid to takeover Iraq’s oil.

You might wonder why there are not more pictures of American casualties. There are four reason for this:

1. The US military heavily censors photos of US casualties.
2. There are far fewer US casualties than Iraqi.
3. US soldiers like to photograph dead Iraqis much as they photograph hunting trophies. Iraqis are not as well supplied with cameras.
4. I don’t really give a fig personally about US soldiers who die. Those US soldiers voluntarily chose the profession of hired killers. They kill for thrills and money, not because they are defending their country. I care about civilians, especially children, of any nationality or religion. I realise, however, that most Americans are infected with racism and nationalism and care only about American deaths and then only white ones, so I will gladly post any photos you can find of US casualties to pound home the cost of this war in suffering to Americans too.

Denial

Imagine Hitler had created a class of soldier recruited from prisons — violent criminals who were sent into war with no instructions, no code of conduct and no laws constraining them. They were free to kill, rape and torture as the spirit moved them. This probably would have seriously harmed Mr. Hitler’s reputation. Yet Americans cheered their country on when it did the same thing sending contractors into Iraq and Afghanistan.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 65)

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