John Gibson's take on that picture of the marine and child

[brettdale]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155539,00.html


The picture Wednesday says it all, doesn't it?

This is the picture of an American soldier comforting a child — as the wires put it — a fatally wounded child after one of those insurgent bombings in Iraq.

[thebigidea]

1. of course, he won't mention that the kid wouldn't be dead...

... if Mr. Comfort wasn't there.

Total propaganda!

[enough]

4. Absolutely.

This stuff just makes me sick. We set it up for them to be killed, then we hold their dying bodies and congratulate ourselves on our compassion.

[walldude]

2. I love these quotes:

"Think those people who hate us for trying to help the Iraqis, who think it's ok to cut off the heads of Americans while they wail in fake pain over Abu Ghraib (search) — think they will scream about this one?

Don't turn up your hearing aid. You're not missing any screaming. They're silent. To object to this might seem to be the same thing as supporting the Americans. All kinds of kids can die before any of those people would be caught dead doing that."

Well, I don't hate anyone who is trying to help the Iraqis, too bad it's not us. You think Fox news ever showed even one child killed by U.S. forces? Why would they, when we do it it's "collateral damage" when they do it it's murdering children. Fucking hypocrites.

[rodeodance]

7. he used/co-0ped this sad pic of a dead child for his own political pur-

poses. Disgusting!!

[Straight Shooter]

11. "... wail in FAKE pain over Abu Ghraib"?

WTF planet is Gibson on? People were tortured and died in Abu Ghraib. Children were raped in Abu Ghraib. And I'm still betting that poor Nick Berg was captured and beheaded because of something he saw that he wasn't supposed to see.

Go fake yourself, John Gibson.

[Clark2008]

3. You know - we should just ignore John Gibson

He probably gets more publicity here than he does a nut-job right wing places.

[ObaMania]

5. ..and the Washington Post had a caption..

that the pic was "released" by the Army.

See? They control only what they want us to see.

Also, the story failed to mention that the soldier was bawling his eyes out because the death of the baby was due in part to the reason HE was there!

Total bullshit.

[Catch22Dem]

6. comforting? fatally wounded?

I don't get it.

[rodeodance]

8. Here is his email address. I just him my 2cents worth

....Watch John Gibson weekdays at 5 p.m. ET on "The Big Story" and send your comments to: [e-mail]

[rodeodance]

9. he is a Ann Coulter wanna be!!

[knowbody0]

10. i had that same reaction

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. People are going to use this image

because it is so powerful. But just like Bush's Mission Accomplished photo op, this one is going to do them more harm than good.

I hope you don't mind my politicized version?

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. What a shame that the child would be home hugging his mama, if it

weren't for the mess we created over there....only so much collateral damage of course. :cry:

[LynnTheDem]

14. My take: Propaganda.

That pic will be spun as look how wonderful and loving the US troops are in Iraq comforting the poor Iraqis being terrorized by all the bad-Iraqi terrorists (who did 911) we MUST stay, the Iraqis LOVE us and WANT us to stay, bush was right to invade and occupy a nation that hadn't been doing anything to anyone coz look at all them terra-ists (who did 911) in Iraq!

The pic that, imo, sums up this bullshit illegal immoral invasion is the one of the little girl in her jammies, crying and covered in her dead parents' blood, killed by US troops at one of their infamous "check points".

THAT is the reality of bush's invasion.

[ContraBass Black]

15. I swear, I nearly did an Incredible Hulk transformation when I saw that.

Infuriating. My first impulse is to respond to this with further violence, though that solves nothing.