Our pornographic war in Iraq

[FightingIrish]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any sicker, it does. The Italian news agency ANSA is reporting on a pornographic web site that is letting Americans fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan trade photos and videos of the horrible things they encounter in the combat zone for free access to the pornographic content on the web site. Some soldiers are posting gruesome photos of our own dead and wounded. The site is in Italian but Google Language Tools will give you the gist of it.

The story has already appeared in La Repubblica, a major italian daily.

http://ansa.it/main/notizie/fdg/200508212143210878/200508212143210878.html

[sasquatch]

1. Is Larry Flynt running this website?

Remember he's VERY politically active.

[seriousstan]

2. Pornography is pornography.

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

3. But the freeper fundies say pornography is evil.

I guess they haven't seen the Iraq war. :crazy:

[Warren DeMontague]

5. No, consenting adults having sex with each other on film is evil.

People taking pictures of naked people being attacked by dogs, or of someone with a hood standing on a box with wires attached to their genitalia, or of their buddies laughing in front of a dead body... those are "fraternity pranks" and "the harmless hijinks of a few bad apples".

[Warren DeMontague]

4. It's the war that's the truly obscene thing.

What you're describing sounds terribly ghoulish, but in my opinion the overly sanitized version of the "war" we get here at home is worse.

[Swamp Rat]

6. It's beyond ghoulish...

:puke:

I went to the website printed in the Italian newspaper. The nude pix are nothing compared to the gory ones... :puke: The people who post there are fucking monsters. Ex: A girl has her foot blown off by a landmine (medical photo) and posters are joking about her shaved______ and LAUGHING at her! :puke: :puke: :puke:

I can't take this anymore! :cry:

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Oy.

War, the ultimate dehumanizer.

I'll pass on the website.

Normal human beings would see pictures like that and take it as an imperative towards ending this shit. Ugh. Ugh Ugh Ugh.

But you're right, getting off on that stuff is WAY worse than pretending it's not happening.

[LibertyorDeath]

8. Just a few bad apples....uh...I don't fucking think so......

I went & the sickest thing I saw

were the comments devoid of all humanity.

They are beyond sick they are mentally ill in some way.