Today's NYT has a photo on the frontpage -- I hope Bush sees it!

[Bozita]

Bottom right.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. He doesn't read the paper and his handlers woudn't let him see it.

[physioex]

3. Yep......

It takes two seconds and a scissor.

[Totally Committed]

2. Do you really think he even CARES?

I don't.

TC

[Bitwit1234]

4. None of the members of his republican administration do...

especially those in congress who have enabled him for seven years.

[blondeatlast]

5. He doesn't read and the TV won't pick it up 'cuz she's brunette.

But it breaks MY heart. Damn him. Damn him all to hell.

[drm604]

6. It won't affect him.

Even if he sees it, which I doubt, I don't think it will move him at all.

[petronius]

9. On the contrary, I think it would make him feel all tough and manly

as he contemplates the sacrifice he's making. I honestly think Bush believes that the war in Iraq is tougher on him than on anyone else, because he has to make the 'difficult decisions' and be the 'wartime leader'. In his mind, he's as much on the front line as any soldier... :eyes:

[Cha]

14. That's what fucking laurabush said

so it must be true.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. It should be above the fold

Very powerful.

[ccinamon]

8. RANT: It should have been above the fold and twice the size

I always thought there were two points to Memorial Day: 1) honor those who have died in the service of our country and 2) in remembering their sacrifice, think at least TWICE before blindly rushing into an armed conflict. What a perfect picture to discuss both of those points and once again the media and NYT have let the nation down.

The Memoriam picture is what should be headlined on Memorial Day, not the lady surviving a stroke. In fact, the picture should take up the all of the room on the top half of the newspaper!!

Or should it now be, "Memorial Day"? It doesn't seem the NYT really wants to acknowledge Memorial Day as it was intended.

Bet if it was a Democrat in the White House this photo WOULD be above the fold ---with a different photo portraying the same thing every day for a week.

[WillyT]

17. Word !!!

Mary McHugh visited the grave of her fiancé, Sgt. James J. Regan, who was killed in Iraq
in February. He is buried in the new Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery for those
killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[windbreeze]

10. IF he cared....we wouldn't be there, and neither would they be where they are....n/t

[yurbud]

11. it's odd that a lifestyle story is above the fold instead

[troubleinwinter]

12. This would have been more responsible

[lildreamer316]

16. I know how it feels to keep the clothes so you can smell them..

....
to prostrate yourself on the grave so you can be as close as possible to what is left...

I did not lose a soldier or anyone else to this war; but I know the pain of losing a partner.
I can feel that still.

I wish I could confort her.
What a picture. It brings it all back.
F@#k this shit.

[Phentex]

13. I don't care how many of these stories I see...

it hurts every time. :(

[karlrschneider]

15. Wouldn't matter anyway. Chimp and Laura suffer more than anyone else.

Didn't you get the memo?

;(

[Jokinomx]

18. Very Sad......also I find the upper right headline very telling....

We are actually training terrorists in Iraq.... they are increasing in numbers and of course as you can see.... spreading out of the country.

If * was a man... he would resign in disgrace and allow those that understand the situation better finish this fiasco.

[Solly Mack]

19. A country that goes to "war" for lies and trumped up evidence does not care

and never will


Oh, they'll be ceremonial feel good displays of patriotic claptrap - and then people will go back to pointing the fingers of blame without once allowing themselves to see a very simple truth - it took a very sick nation - that's NATION - to rush to "war" for lies and trumped up evidence.

[Bozita]

20. NBC's evening news showed that photo in the first minute of the broadcast

It filled the HD screen. Incredibly sad image.

Good on NBC.

[Bozita]

21. Link to a bigger pic ... a pic that seems burned in my mind

?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193FDE3AF4FFC4B70CF6AAFB111B3A26394

[Matariki]

22. See it? He'll probably jerk off to it.

[Bozita]

23. I'd love to see the WH press corps ask Tony how Bush reacted to the photo

I'm sure Snow's answer would be worthy of Youtube.

[Bozita]

24. This LTTE appeared in the NYT print edition

To the Editor:

Your May 28 “In Memoriam” front-page photograph of a young woman prostrate with grief at Arlington National Cemetery before the fresh white gravestone of her fiancé, killed three months ago in Iraq, shows once again with unbearable poignancy the price we are paying for this endless and endlessly futile war. With bare shoulders hunched in grief, she seems herself a sacrificial victim.

What can this war ever gain to salve her anguish, to make her believe that he did not die in vain?

James Heffernan

Hanover, N.H., May 28, 2007

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/opinion/l30iraq.html?pagewanted=2&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fLetters

[cynatnite]

25. I can't see the pic n/t