If it wasn't for the US getting involved in foreign affairs across the globe for the last 200 years, 2/3 of the world would be speaking German while the other 1/3 would be speaking Japanese.
I love how veterans (who probably stayed stateside) come out against the war. If you don't like what the military is doing, GET OUT. Nobody is holding you back.
The only reason we backed Hussein in the 70's and 80's is because he fought Iran. He was the lesser of 2 evils. Kind of like watching 2 scorpions in a bottle killing each other.
Unless McCain wins and we drill for our own oil, we'll be dependant on foreign oil which comes from the Middle East. Odrama just wants us to all hold hands & sing peace songs to bring up America's standing in the world. I don't give a flying F@&$ what the world thinks about the USA. Their vote or opinions don't matter to me so they should try to make their own country better before sounding off on the USA.
As for my Canadien friend who thinks he knows more about the US than it's own citizens, you're probably right. You personally do know more than 90% of us here, but your opinion is moot. Unless you are a citizen, nobody cares about your opinion. Again, I say, nobody cares about your opinion. Just keep making maple syrup & hockey sticks at low prices & we'll leave Canada alone.

I wanted the trillions spent in Iraq to be spent on the USA's real problems: our failing infrastructure, our social security, our national healthcare, our natural disasters...etc.

America F@ck yeah!!!!

Picture # 27, Airman Diaz, marry her already.
Great pics.

Judging from all the comments here, the war has created far more strife and divisions than peace and concord, thus far. Perhaps there will be a true and lasting peace in Iraq someday, but whatever happens, there will never be any justification for the atrocities, death and destruction perpetrated by all sides in Iraq. The real tragedy is US, the human race that eats its own children and destroys itself and everything that it touches. The real tragedy is the tragedy of humanity brutalizing itself. We should all cry, for ourselves. We are all alike victims. And if peace is ever to come, we must first fight and subdue the violence and hatred in our own hearts. If we cannot or will not do this, then there is no hope. We shall all die one day of our own folly.

This is propaganda.

Some nice pictures, yes, but how many people do you think are killed for every person who's killed by a suicide bomber? Don't you think the billions spent on US weapons do anything? Where are the pictures of that?

And what's up with all the sneaky comments about how the security situation is improved because of the USA and so on... What about the people threatened by the US? And how can you claim that people don't rather support the resistance, than USA and its puppet regime? Many, undeniably, do.

And you see pictures of soldiers hugging their children. Wow. Where are the pictures of the Al Queda fighters hugging their children, or visiting the grave of their slaughtered family members?

There may be obvious reasons for why this is so one sided, but this _is_ one-sided propaganda. _Not_ a clear and unbiased news source.

It's amazing how things work. When the US stays on the sidelines and lets the "neighbors" handle the problem, we get genocide in Bosnia... and somehow it's the US's fault for not doing anything about it. When the US intervenes to prevent genocide, like in Kosovo, they get yelled at for interfering with sovereign nations.

Most Americans have come to accept that the "hope for the best, at least they didn't attack us this time" Europeans and the powerless nations elsewhere are going to complain no matter what. Fortunately, it doesn't prevent the US from trying to do the right thing. Sometimes they're incompetent, sometimes they're short-sighted, but often the world is better off as a result.

Isolationism and "head in the sand" foreign policy cannot be the approach of every nation on earth, unfortunately.

Some of you have no pride in your Country. Support your troops.

Dearest Skyler (#126),

In case you wanted to say that after hurricane Katrina no one came to help from outside the U.S., you would be very well advised to check your sources.

I have to say, the only people in this situation that i find MORE detestable than George Bush and the Hallibur-fun Legion... are the worldwide 'Let me interject my knowledge on Iraq... even though I've never been there, and don't know whats happening there' Corps who seem to think they have solved the problems of one of the worlds most ethnically and religiously diverse nations in one paragraph in a blog's comment section.

I invite you to talk to someone who has actually been on the ground in Iraq and seen it first hand. Maybe then you wont be so incredibly ignorant. Whether the war was just start or not is irrelevant now. Weve screwed this country up. If we all walk now, it will be WORSE than before. A place of terrible civil war and mindless religious violence. I highly doubt thats what anyone wants for the people of Iraq.

very good photos

Man... There so much going on out there... Great series. No.14 is an outstanding shot! www.javga.nl

Great selection of pictures. I really enjoyed it.

God Bless America

congratulation for yours picture, all of them
you do an outstanding work
cheerings

Its an absolute shame that when one person wants to take a picture, to share what he saw with other people. That those people take it and tear it apart. turn it into propaganda, political acts of greatness or faillure. That the picture(s) are turned into right or wrong, good vs. evil. American vs. AntiAmerican. Every picture taken tells the truth, its tells the truth of that moment. Wether that moment is a postive or negative moment, it tells the truth.

Take the picture(s) as an act of hummanity, an act of sharing, regaurdless of its nature. Take it as an act of truth and insight to a moment in time that most of you will never see first hand.

And for those of you both foreign and domestic that have to witness the worlds attrocities, God Bless. May you find your moment of truth.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

WAR IS PART OF LIFE!!!!! It is not right it is not wrong it is the way it has always been! Man is not man's best friend, but man is man's worst enemy. It will go no untill the end of time......Honor yourself, honor your family, hornor your country!!! Most of all HONOR YOUR TROOPS!!!! For they are providing your FREEDOM!!!!

What an absolute waste.

Wow, those images are incredibly powerful.

juliejones: As they say, 'no news is good news.' Do not expect 'good news' of a war from a western media and people who have been financially caned from it.

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Stop to kill the iraqui people.

Nobody called you.

God bless & save Iraq

oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When everyone knew that the WMD in Iraq was a lie, it's really funny to see how some people are trying to justify the war no matter what "Saddam is a dictator, and he did that and that in the 80's, so we had to stop him!".

Are you going to show us what are you going to do about the other 30+ dictators in the world (especially in the non-oil countries!).

Going back to WMD. if you're going to occupy every country who has the WMD, why don't you occupy Pakistan, India, Israel, .... etc.

And what about North Korea? they actually Said: "Hey!, we have WMD!".

Oh wait, there's no oil there!.

Great pictures. I hope that we focus on our own country and instead of dropping bombs promoting development. Win the hearts and minds of the people and make friends with the people. This is the only long term solution. Spanish Lessons Phoenix, Arizona

It is easy to comment on the evil of America when you can sit in your living room to watch the war and the world move on. But, how many of us have actually sacraficed anything like the Iraqis or the US soldiers have?

Many of you should take the time to talk to a servicemember about the reality of the war and not what the media feeds us. You should sit through the classes designed to tell the young spouse how to deal with their returning soldier--the anger, the pain and the sacrafice.

No one wants this war to end more than US servicemembers and their families. However, they quietly and stoically do their duty to their country. Having had the opportuntity to speak with soldiers in Iraq, they feel stuck in a civil war, but that there is good coming to the country. That Iraqis are taking ownership of their own lives.

Whether the war is right or wrong is irrelevant now. The war happened and to pull out would be utter disaster for Iraq. Look for good where you can. And if you haven't done something for someone other than yourself today, its time to leave your living room and put some good into the world. Until then, you really have no room to criticize the US servicemembers who are doing their jobs.

Thank you for your beautiful and disturbing visual narrative of Iraq

Nice selection of photos

Woo theres some of our 10th mtn boys!

very sad but beautiful pictures...
Your works are great.

Thanks for the great photos
Thank you, soldiers for your great
work in Iraq. Freedom Rocks!

very painful

Down with America,

One just has to wonder how many LHCs could've been built to further the humanitys knowledge with the price of just one war in Iraq.
The number is frighteningly large.
Or if you're afraid of the end of the world, wonder how many billions of people could've been fed as long as they live with the price of just one war in Iraq.
Even that number is frighteningly large.
Now, consider the fact that those billions of dollars went into not that many companies pockets. Someone had to build the tanks, planes, guns and crap, not to mention produce the oil used up during the war.
Yes, this freedom thing seems to come with an extremely high pricetag, even if it weren't anywhere near actual freedom.

Your Photos are so Nice

Peapole don't need to talk to fu@k the world like this ...
Peace , love , light , smile " Amen "
Nice job dear friend ... ;)

There will be no Freedom for Iraq. Now we are seeing only the Dead, Cruelty and Starvation. The Muslims are agonizing every day. They are killing by the American Soldiers. It is very irressistible thing for the Islam and Muslims. There is fratricidal war in Iraq. In Iraq the people are killing their friends, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers. Actually they are killing their future, lifes. I yell to USA. you couldn't get the FREEDOM to Iraq. The SUPERPOWER of WORLD USA.. you could not have achieved that. ý say you only that you are so WEAK and so POWERLESS......

CONGRATULATIONS USA.

In every picture with soldiers I kept looking for my son's face. Then I would note the date. Most were taken after he was killed, except the very last one. It could have been him. He was with the 3rd Cav and wasn't killed until March. I know it's not him but it could have been. I just sat and wept for my lost boy.

Please let this end before more mothers' sons are lost forever.

nice pic of a destroyed country sometimes pics hide the fact like this pics

So sad how that country has been destroyed...so very sad.

#57 Dan K ....too funny..I agree!

#77 "Sure we pay taxes and don't have universal health care but I'd rather that happen than living in a card board box somewhere in a country like China. "

China won't welcome a man like you who shows no respect and wearing a pair of arrogant colored glasses.

Thank you to stay where you belong, if you can manage to

svaka cast...

Feelings are mixed on this war, but I'm sure we all agree - we wish there was no war at all. But every one of us has the freedom to do what he or she wants to do in life. America has given us this freedom, and it's our fighting men and women all over the world that are preserving our life styles, just as our fathers and grandfathers have done. Freedom is not free, and unfortunately some of our great people lose there lives earning it for us.

It's easy for any of us to put down our leaders for their decisions when we are sitting back in our lazyboys.

Thanks Lynn! For every one person in this country that blames Pres. Bush there are 10 in Iraq that thank him. Many in this country and in Europe have forgotten the Dictators and Despots of the past and how they terrorized their citizens. The United States is the only country in history I can think of that does not occupy and take over (as much as some might argue the point, look at Germany and Russa in the 30's and 40's) but instead helps a country become free with it's own form of government. We are not perfect but we are the closest thing many countries in this world have ever had to a protector and friend.

Thank you Lynn and Jeff C. I am the mother of a soldier. I couldn't be any prouder for his choice of careers. I pray every night for his safe return and for his fellow soldiers. For those of you out there that think this job is easy I think most of you couldn't handle it. You try being away for months on end. Stop bellyaching and start thanking your lucky stars that you have the freedom to express your thoughts and that you can sleep with both eyes closed. I thank the soldiers, their families and I thank my God. You all are always in my prayers. Thank you Mark.
Hooah!!!!

Compare these to the pictures from NASA. It's hard to believe the same country could be capable of such extremes of good and evil.

For more amazing images and distpatches from Iraq and Afghanistan, read independent embedded journalist Michael Yon's reporting at:

http://www.michaelyon-online.com

Michael has been "on the ground" since '05, pulling no punches, telling it like it is. His stories and opinions, and those of the soldiers, Iraqis, and others that he corresponds with should mean more than those of any elected official, candidate, or pundit combined.

I encourage all looking for the most hands-on, unbiased reporting from the war zone bookmark or subscribe to Michael's site.

His efforts are entirely self-funded. Please consider supporting Michael if you find his reporting valuable.

*Read the piece entitled "Bless the Beasts and Children" from June '07 for a truly arresting account of "why we're there."

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After reading all of these comments, I can see why the US is in the shape it is in. There are so many "men" in this country without the "##lls" to go and do something for their country.
How do they think this country was formed?, by sitting down and talking with the King and asking him if we can leave and start our own country and not pay him anything from our hard work and labors?
As for the guy from south of the border, read another comic book and stay where you are.............................

First off let me say that the pictures are wonderful. Pictures can never fully tell the story or show what is truly happening for any time or any place.
No one will ever convince me that there weren't weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before we got there. Saddam Hussein was old and sad and ineffectual. It was his sons who were running the country. They had plenty of time to get any WMD's out of the country before our troops arrived. As far as I am concerned they were also in contact with Ossama bin Laden and were helping him.
I am offended and appalled that anyone would say that the US is treating the Iraqi people the same way that Hitler treated the Jews. How dare you!
Seems strange that the US is the only country in the world that has unconditional freedom. We can say and do what we want and travel freely throughout our country. We have had very bad times in our country that we are all not particularly proud of, but we have tried to learn from our mistakes. Sometimes we have and sometimes we haven't ,but we are still growing and learning. We have a diverse population of wonderful people who have come here from every nation on earth. Their contributions to our society have been countless and without them we wouldn't be the nation we are today. And make no mistake that if anyone attacks us again on our soil, you will see what the American people are truly made of.
I hate war and I hate the fact that so many Iraqi people have been killed during this war, but I hope that the spark of Freedom will light in their hearts and they will embrace a new future. One that is free of tyranny, struggle and torture. That they can and will live their lives freely.

WHY DID IT HAVE TO GO THIS FAR ???? CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK ---THIS COULD BE US---THE U.S. GOD HELP US. D. MURREY

Reply to Charlie 9-3-08 " The Dominican"

I am Dominican as well. And the US soldiers are the ones that allow you to be able to express yourself, even to critisize Pres. Bush.
Let me remind you, that In the DR you would not have been able to freely express your sentiments.

God Bless America.

im sorry i actrally like this it is very heart breaking to see peoples husbands and wifes going away like that and sometimes they never even come back

for once, i wish people wouldn't assume that they're opinion is worth a damn, and keep their mouths shut. instead of taking the opportunity to spout your half-cocked, self-righteous vitriol, why can't you just appreciate the pictures?

but heck, while we're on the subject. it never ceases to amaze me how ardent and concrete people are in their opinion that they are smarter than the entire US government, i.e. some people are absolutely convinced that Bush is a liar and a warmonger, who'se only intent was to go steal oil or whatever. 1. i don't see no oil.
2. congress AND a multitude of countries signed on...(maybe, just maybe they did a liitle intel gathering and came to a similar conclusion as Bush?). 3. the dynamics of intelligence and politics is so multi-faceted, that it is ridiculous for ANYONE to assert that they've figured it all out. hell, if you DID figure it out and it made the government look bad, do you REALLY think they'd let you tell anyone....

thos men and women in those pictures are heros. in the meantime, you criticize them....piss off.

The pictures were moving and telling. And the photos are things we should have been commenting on, not how rotten the US is. My God, some of the anti-American comments here were embarrassingly stupid. Where do I begin? I can only address a few...

"Going back to WMD. if you're going to occupy every country who has the WMD, why don't you occupy Pakistan, India, Israel, .... etc."

Ahh the foolish and morally bankrupt line of moral relativism. I mean, to compare Israel to Saddam Hussein is mind-numbingly stupid.

"And what about North Korea? they actually Said: "Hey!, we have WMD!".
Oh wait, there's no oil there!."

And it's also a situation that would probably be much harder to win. The terrain is much rougher, for one, as we learned in the 50s. But secondly, while Kim Jong Il is a potential terrorist aider/abetter, he did not violate 17 UN resolutions, he did not fire at our planes repeatedly, he did not invade any of his neighbors and start raping their women. Do I need to go on? Probably for you, but I have to move on.

"Where are the WMDs??? All i see are occupied iraqis. Where is their freedom? in the hands of Bush?"

Yes! Pres BUSH is the one suppressing the Iraqis!

Good God.

"Where the world would be without the US spreading “Democracy” and “Freedom"........uhh ummm in Peace......."

You're right!

* If the US wasn't around, Israel would likely have been attacked far more violently and with far more military might than she has up to this point.

* China would have invaded and conquered democratic Taiwan by now.

* South Korea would be neither prosperous nor free.

* Europe would be speaking either Russian or German now, depending on how WWII unfolded.

You see, with the wonderful and beneficent dictators... er... statesman out there, like Hussein, Putin, Kim Jong Il, and Ahmadinejad, the world would be a much safer place.

"Only in the US people think they can spread “Democracy” and “Freedom” by force"

Well it worked in Japan... South Korea.... Germany... Afghanistan... Iraq... but you're right. We Americans have only been a source of trouble in the world -- even when we rightly act in self-defense.

Well, those pastry plates looks so delicious.
It's a shame a city like Baghdad being in ruins. These pictures remind me those from Europe after World War II, where entire cities were destroyed. Remember Dresden...
I hope one day this conflict ends and the city could rise from the ashes of one beautiful city it once were.

i hate bush. this war is stupid, and america needs to mind their own buiness! if bush had just minded his own buisness, we wouldn't be in this stupid mess. just look at pictures number 4, 15, and 20. it's THE most depressing thing i ever saw. and it's happening for no reason at all. there is no deed to bring democracy or whatever the hell bush was trying to bring to iraq. now, we're trying to kill bad guys with names i can't pronounce. iraq was fine with whatever they were doing, and we just invaded. im only 12, but im old enough to know that whatever happening is WRONG!!!!!!!!!! i hardley understand this stupid war, partly because the dumb government is hiding half the story from us, and partly because i never watch the news, but wars in general are dumb. im rooting for Mcain, i believe he'll bring us out of this war, because he CARES!

I look at picture #4 and ask the question "why do they hate us?" Well, the answer is picture #4

I think we've done what we needed to over seas. The mission is accomplished. Now we need to get our boys and girls back home where they belong.

#132
You are exactly right!

Why are some of you badmouthing our soldiers? They join to fight for our freedom so others don't have to. Should we not have armed forces? How long would we be free if we had no armed forces? These young men and women do what they are trained to do and are not to blame for this war (just or unjust), so get off their backs. We should be proud of them not ridicule them.

#204,we were minding our own buisness on sept. 11.This is war between Good and EVIL!!!!!Better it be fought there rather than on U S soil.God Bless this GREAT country and the people who serve it!!!Love the United States or get the hell out!!!!!!

Keith, you are absolutely spot on!

Amazing how fast everyone becomes an armchair general, especially in the UK. Do you really think that you have the same amount of legal (and illegal) info in front of you as Blair or Bush? Of course you do, after all, you're just as important as they are, right? Oooo those evil Americans, thinking we owe them anything after, er, saving our asses in WW2...after we'd tried the negitation path until most of europe had been nazi-fied.

Yup, that's right, we had Neville Chamberlain telling us that dialogue was the only way forward, and....whooops! We had the second world war - and the same folks that said we shouldn't have dropped the bomb on Hiroshima are now saying, since they don't have a gun to their head, 'it's nothing to do with us, we shouldn't get involved' (and notice how those same folks never address the issue that we had to drop *two* bombs, not one - so what does that make the Japanese in 1945, apart from stupid?)

Even if we ignore that - why isn't everyone protesting against the U.N.? It's their fault the US/UK had to go in and show Saddam what Cheat-and-retreat tactics will gain you. And Saddam *still* had 10 years to hide/ destroy/ sell his WMD's (followed by a chorus of "Oh! Where are they?" as if he'd simply leave them in the same place).

It's like dealing with folks who won't help the only shopkeeper for 100 miles when he's attacked because it's 'nothing to do with them'. Even though, down the road, they'll starve to death.

Where were all these liberals when Saddam was torturing folks? They *always* protest from the comfort of their ignorant armchairs, using the freedom that others die to protect. You never see these folks protesting in, say, Darfur or against Mugabe....That would be *dangerous*. And yet we still get folks posting on here about how we should 'mind our own business'. Why, do you think these problems will go away? You think Iran is going to mind it's own business when they've made enough uranium? Or that India & Pakistan will simply shake and make up? Or that Russia *isn't* going to try and grab the Arctic for all the oil?

There are so many countries where you can get killed simply for stating a point of view - and yet in the few countries where you can, everyone is apparently desperate to join the former. What a world!

Get out of Iraq USA - an occupation has the polar opposite effect you are apparently trying to achieve. Very arrogant.

my beloved country...when will sadness leave your side..?

The pics are excellent, all of them. If one had to go it'd probably be 23 because it's unclear what's going on, something about the shape of it all, but it's still good.
It took a hell of lot longer to glance through the comments, didn't it?

To pick up a few blood boiling points... Yes, the US did save the Brits from Nazi rule. Hitler was genocidal, reprehensible and the designer of the Volkswagon Beatle, (though not a bad leader if he approved of the shape of your head etc), and he was on a path to invade the world. So thanks for the help there. Just War, right, because it was DEFENCE, against clear, present and immediate danger. The Iraq invasion was also sold up as defence, at first, wasn't it? How many people still believe the US needed to defend itself from Iraq? Since then, the story settled on Bringing Democracy, because that's always a fair reason to rape the sh*t out of a nation and kill, maim and traumatise your own soldiers in the process. The UK rode in there on the throbbing US point of Democracy Now, but as revealed (again) in recently declassified docs, the truth was oil. The Brits have been carving up the Middle East for decades on this matter, supplying weapons and political coverage to tyrants, military coups to implant sympathetic(!!) leaders, the whole black ops jobby.
Today there is little need for military defence; it's a matter of covert operations and highly dubious shenanigans for oil and other strategic advantage. We the People are so hopelessly moral it would only shock our collective tits off to learn the truth, but Brits are too long in the tooth to buy stories of heart-felt intentions in international politics, and even though Blair was painted as Mr. Humanitarian, he still couldn’t blow that horn too hard. Operation Iraqi Freedom, indeed! There must have been some cringing in Whitehall. Why not 'Phoenix', or 'Smoking Pipe'? But that’s the difference. The British government tend to practise their extraordinary deceit quietly, the US do it with fanfare audible from space. God Bless you all.

I have just as many opinions as all of you. I'm voting, informed, empathetic and interested.

Was the soldier burying the anonymous bodies not incredibly hot?

Guys why do u blame each other.....untill and unless there is no unity in between two country, America and Iraq there wont be any peace...y is this ego...come lets be together and live in peace.....Richa (India)

As fotos ficaram excelentes. Acho que só faltou um pouco mais de emoção nas imagens!!!

Regarding comments from Matt (124) and Skyler (126). I agree with Jamie (128). America will help another country or continent if it is in America's best interests to do so. That's fair enough, but I'm not sure what is meant by ungrateful. Troops from many European countries are serving in the Middle East along side your soldiers and remember that Great Britain (one of your allies) is a part of Europe!
BTW, do you honestly expect countries much less wealthy than you to provide monetary assistance when a natural disaster occurs? Like you said, USA is the no.1 superpower, your government failed big time with reacting on that one.
Hate is also a strong word to use. Most people don't hate Americans, they dislike ignorance and arrogance.

BTW, photos are great, and I appreciate all that our soldiers have done to SAVE our lives as we know it. I recognise, in awe, the value of these photos. My heart skips a beat at the pain and suffering that the soldiers, their families and innocent civilians caught in crossfire have to endure in these times.

I recognize a few of those places...well done on the photography!

(as far the "wahhhh" crowd; Shut up..)
(as for the "Mind your own business" crowd: If a member of your crowd is from Britain, France, Belgium...well most of Europe, China, South Korea, most of eastern asia/south pacific, Kuwait...etc..do me a favor and tell them what (country appropriately) they would be doing if we Minded our own business in the past.)

Yeh...thas about it.

i want to thank all the men and women who are fighting for our way of life over here and keeping us safe. we will never forget you guys for the things your doing in harms way for us. we love each and every one of you. please come home safe and god bless you. you are our heroes. you nare the greatest generation now

i will not sit back and let some scum bad mouth our soldiers. i was one for 18 years and had 4 tours in iraq and 1 tour in somalia. this country is the greatest because of us soldiers who risked everything for freedom and some of my friends paid the ultimate price for these scum to talk bad about us.. when they go to bed at night they had better thank us for giving them the right to say what they want to say.

My name is Jackie Bottoms I go to Prairie Vista Middle school in Saginaw, Texas. I am doing a project on the election, and my partner Haley and I are doing our project over the war in Iraq. We have to pictrues for the project and I choose these because I know that if people see these they might slow down in the world and think about what's really going on, and what they can do to help the troops and the one's that don't diserve to live in Iraq because there enisistese.
Thank you
Jackie Bottoms

fotky su velmi hlboke - myslim, ze nutia cloveka sa zamysliet nad tymto systemom, svetom. Sklanam sa

i have been in some of them places that are shown and i will gladly lay my life down like i have in the past for my country again no matter what. if duty calls like it has 5 times before i will gladly go back over again and protect my country with my life if i have too like all the men and women before me who have done. USA USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!! this is the greatest country in the world because of our vets. they should all be treated with the utmost respect and dignity. i volunteer my weekends to go the local v a in iowa and talk and help the old soldiers and talk to them about the war were in.. they are my heroes

I'd personally love to see all our troops back home - from around the globe. Imagine the country the US would be if we stopped funneling all the tax dollars to ungrateful nations. Why do we need to be invloved with some "missile defence system and why is Russia so upset by its proposed expansion into Europe"? Hell, a good portion of the people in Europe hate us, so why the hell are we spending my/our tax dollars on a system to protect them? (I understand the "Interest of National Security" - blah, blah) If Russia wants to invade Europe, so be it. I'll echo those above who say we should keep our noses out of their business. They're big

That is an amazing work! As an Iraqi person I've seen similar to those pictures in real life also I took some myself.. I wish I have space to put mine. If anyone want to see some I have them in my blog: http://evejameel.blogspot.com

All the best

Been to the RAQ 2wice and FGAN 1nce,, and I had fun, put a lot down range, made fun of the fobbit officers, plus I got to see some of the nastiest people in the world, they dont bathe, they stink, crap and urine in the streets, they just chunk garbadge every where. Funny thing is I hear people say how beautiful the places were before the war,, and I think back to when I was a kid and traveled throughout the middle east with my dad, and it was just as nasty then.. If you want to get a good Idea what it's like go to the mexico border and look at the otherside.
Thanks Veterans,, maybe when I get my new arm they will let me go back :)

You canadians need to stick a sock in it. The difference between Yanks and you is we dont bow down to a queen or anybody. Quit your crying. You insult the memory of the brave canuks that died on D day.

Once there was a great country called Iraq, which was nearly an empire of Culture, Wealth, & Progress... then Time destroyed everything beautiful & this Place was shattered by a Tyrant, Soldiers of Fortune, Murderers & Hypocrites.
& every good or beautiful thing turned into ashes that blown with the sands of time, where other nation rise on his agony, while the blood of the helpless citizens, obliged soldiers & rotten terrorists mixed with the ancient rivers of Mesopotamia
When will the Phoenix rise once again & the people start to live a descent life & every soldier return to his family ( may be this the only thing that everyone agree with )

Iraq is being mutilated for oil.
If Americans dont want their sons and daughters to die, they need to force the government to stop the war and stop listening to the Big Oil Companies. Human life to these corporation are dispensable, as long as the rich maintain their control. And please we Americans are not liberating anyone, we are not liberating Iraqis, we are destroying their country for our own benefit and gain. And to soldiers that think they are protecting their homeland US from terrorist, it might be hard to for you to want to accept this, but you are not protecting anyone. If we remember the 9/11 terrorist were not from Iraq. American soldiers and privately owned forces are being used as security detail as oil is being exported. Its not right that Iraqis are being killed for the greed of Americans.

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Dear God, Allah, Krishna, Buddha:

Please help us stop the war in all countries from greed.
Please give courage to the people in wealthy countries to stand up to its government and corporations that kill people in other countries that have valuable resources. Help us be people that are not greedy for material trash that cost people their lives in other countries. Also help all people regardless of what country they live in to eduacate one another. People who live in Europe have a strong dislike for Americans, do they not realize that the majority in US oppose the war? Instead of name calling, reach out and help create a global movement for peace. Hating Americans is not really going to solve the problem.

On Comment 219 "all the men and women who are fighting for our way of life over here" oh yes, our way of life: extremely materialistic. what do we do for fun? SHOP. go to the mall buy things you really dont need, the companies come out with a new version of the toy and now you need to have a new one. 200 pairs of jeans, shirts, dresses. to then throw away or "donate" to thrift shops, where they are resold.
Lets wake up Americans and realize that OUR WAY OF LIFE KILLS PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. If you have no problem with that then you shouldn't have a problem with our soldiers dying, for that way of life.

Luckly we can change!

george bush was one of thee best president this country has seen. its not only him that makes the decisions so you can not blame just him. we have had wars in the past, and those wars were alot worse than this one, since mr candian in #131 seems to know EVERYTHING about this country....how many people died in the civil war or world war 1?? and for what? people's freedom!! so what is the difference now?? all anyone sees is the horrible things that are happening over there none of the good things!! i love my country, and the decision we made by making GWB president, i hate the fact that we are over in iraq but if its what we have to do than so be it. i support my troops 100%, seeing that my dad, brother and brother in law all served and i have many friends risking their lives for other peoples freedom. so heres to you mr candian in #131....shut the hell up and for all those people who do not support he tropps, if you are not gonna stand behind our troops..please, PLEASE feel free to stand in front of them.

A briefing 2008

1st blast.....Jaipur. .....13thMay......no blast in June

2nd blast.... Ahmedabad... ..26thJuly.....no blast in August

3rd blast....Delhi. .....13thSep........no blast in Oct...

4th......... Mumbai... ...26thNov....

So far; as per order, possibly there won't b any blast in Dec...and next may be on 13thJan 2009....
and could be in a different city...

India, wake up, no more TAJ should be targeted!!!

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I have seen some of the pictures of Iraq and realize that the country which was as rich and wealthy nation but now it is a garbaze. This is the result of so called Saddam Hussain's weapons of mass destruction. Western alliance's result of building democracy in Iraq. This is a democratic Iraq now prosperous and wealthy. May Allah bless us. May Allah show us the right path. Mr. Presidend of US has got the remuneration in the last visit to Iraq from a journalist. He should remember it forever.

iraq is a very rich and very nice place. they have very tasty food, and nice people, coz i have iraqi friends from there. its so sad because of the war, almost everything damage there/

Have you noticed? The most patriotic writers are most likely to make spelling mistakes in their comments.
Dear American democracy promoters - (with all my respect to America really being the beacon of hope in the world in most situations) - reading your brainwashed enthusiastic comments about the inexcusable and unnecessary tragedy the Bush team committed in Iraq gives me goose flesh. I´d like to argue with you, but I´m afraid you´re already FUBAR.

im commenting on the lady judy from no 230. if you dont like the way of life over here then you can go back overseas where you obviously came from.i wrote the comment you responded to about buying clothes and stuff you dont need or throw away. i think you need a money manager. i have 5 tours over there to protect our way of life and gave you the right to say what you want to say and do.we where invited to this party and hopefully we can stay their to see the end of it. your brothers and sisters are trying to do us in but there not winning sister. sorry to break the news to you. if you dont like us imposing our will on your brothers and sisters over there they shouldnt have done a coward act of terrorism against 3000 innocent people

add more photos bidu..........

#153
I'm truly sorry for your goverment. US is a great and powerfull country but I'd like to see it doing something good instead of destroying itself. Hopefully your new goverment realizes the consequenses of your actions. Most of the world is against you no matter what you may think.

sad pics

I have a son in stryker brigade 2SCR just returned from 15 month deployment in Iraq. He was active combat and spent most of his deployment in remote combat outposts, horrible living conditions, sand, spiders, bad water, water shortages, no daily baths at times, intolerable heat, day and night patrols, sleep deprived, sand in beds, sand in food, sand everywhere, intolerable heat and cold, But he survived and is a better man for it....he believes he and his fellow soldiers made a difference in the lives of the Iraqi people, the elderly and the young children especially...Those of you who have written your negative comments about our soldiers and our president do not have a clue about what has and is going on in Iraq therefore, please show some respect for our soldiers that have been there and are still there, without their presence there, you may not have the freedom to sit at your computer and make senseless statements about our beloved sons and daughters and Pres Bush who has kept you safe since 911...None of you armchair computer know -it -all people have the integrity, honor, morale fiber, military training and skill level of our US soldiers, simply because of the way you degrade them every chance you get... and I am proud to say that I am the Mother of a career US Army Sgt. that loves his country and his family and puts his life on the line every day to keep us safe....

the army roks

Americans are beasts. that is all i can say.

If Sudanese president is to be arrested,bush should also be arrested,because himself violated,killed innocent lives of iraq,this voice is from africa

Há querras ? sim há !! mas se são nessesçarias nunca iremos saber > matamos uns aos outros sem ne3m mesmo nos conhecermos mas matamos a11 temos cada um sua justificativa . não pensamos que a cada dia que passa menospresamos mas a vida e inaltecemos a cfovardia e a violencia !! guando iremos parar como poderemos entender que nascemos para viver e amarmos uns aos outros tudo seria mas feliz a vida teria muito mas sentido e beleza

you are awesome

The pictures are wonderful
Thank you

I think that the picture are good to look at see you guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can I say nice pictures in the middle of war?? How can I say congratulations when I see death for nothing??
"Brave soldiers, please come back and fight for peace!