Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

internetworkers - RE: [internetworkers] disturbing photos from Al Jazeera

internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Kurt Schlatzer" <kurt AT kurtschlatzer.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] disturbing photos from Al Jazeera
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:46 -0500

Joey Carr stated:
> These images of the dead are the single most damaging thing to the
> continuation of this war that the Iraqi state is capable of. Pictures of
> the American dead will serve to scare and demoralize the American
> population, no matter if you see it as Iraqi propaganda or as brutal facts
> of reality (they're dead people who died very violently, unless you're
> used to it it is going to freak you out, it certainly did me).

For the record, I saw the images. They neither scared or demoralized me.
What they did do was make me wish I was there cranking out lead and helping
to liberate the Iraqi people instead of cranking out code for websites that
will probably be obsolete before the conflict in Iraq is over.

Kurt





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page