Butler Shaffer

Those who defend warfare tend to see it only as an abstraction, a game pitting strategists from opposing collectives against one another in furtherance of contrived objectives. The ugly details of orchestrated butchery and torture are to be suppressed, lest persons of humane sensitivities become upset and demand a cessation of the game.

http://207.44.245.159/article7534.htm


Photo Gallery:
Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan:

- Warning - Pictures depict the reality and horror of war:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm


From Information Clearing House


Calling the dead

"Accident victims" families are worse -- they're not prepared. Military families are calmer. They're half-expecting it." Every time I read a headline about American deaths in Iraq, I remember those words. I've been remembering them a lot lately.

http://207.44.245.159/article7540.htm


Iraq’s silent dead

American behaviour and self-perceptions reveal the ease with which a civilised country can engage in large-scale killing of civilians without public discussion.

http://207.44.245.159/article7536.htm