Good Morning, Vietnam
Jun 22nd, 2005 at 9:24 am by Susie
Sy Hersh mentioned this in an interview last month:
After I did Abu Ghraib, I got a bunch of digital pictures emailed me, and — was a lot of work on it, and I decided, well, we can talk about it later. You never know why you do things. You have some general rules, but in this case, a bunch of kids were going along in three vehicles. One of them got blown up. The other two units — soldiers ran out, saw some people running, opened up fire. It was a bunch of boys playing soccer. And in the digital videos you see everybody standing around, they pull the bodies together. This is last summer. They pull the bodies together. You see the body parts, the legs and boots of the Americans pulling bodies together. Young kids, I don’t know how old, 13, 15, I guess. And then you see soldiers dropping R.P.G.’s, which are rocket-launched grenades around them. And then they’re called in as an insurgent kill.
Here are the photos. See for yourself. (Scroll down.)
WARNING: These photos are not safe for work, because they show a naked adolescent boy. And we know that the sight of a penis is much more offensive than a few dead Iraqi teenagers we killed by mistake.
Lord have mercy….
Regarding the value of lives in different types of bodies, Krishna states in Bhagavad-gita chapter 5, verse 18:
“The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brÄ?hmanÌ£a, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].”
Also, God is in their hearts as much as in ours:
BG 10.20: “I am the Supersoul, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all living entities. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings.”