At Wilson’s Web site, you can see an Arab man’s face sliced off and placed in a bowl filled with blood. Another man’s head, his face crusted with dried blood and powder burns, lies on a bed of gravel. A man in a leather coat who apparently tried to run a military checkpoint lies slumped in the driver’s seat of a car, his head obliterated by gunfire, the flaps of skin from his neck blooming open like rose petals. Six men in beige fatigues, identified as US Marines, laugh and smile for the camera while pointing at a burned, charcoal-black corpse lying at their feet.
The captions that accompany these images, which were apparently written by the soldiers who posted them, laugh and gloat over the bodies. The soldier who posted a picture of a corpse lying in a pool of his own brains and entrails wrote, “What every Iraqi should look like.” The photograph of a corpse whose jaw has apparently rotted away, leaving a gaping set of upper teeth, bears the caption “bad day for this dude.” One soldier posted three photographs of corpses lying in the street and titled his collection “DIE HAJI DIE.” The soldiers take pride, even joy, in displaying the dead.
9 comments on “War Porn”
This is very sickening. This is what people who favour war ignore when they promote it. How can anyone not be disgusted by acts like these?
It’s hard to have faith in all people, or even most people. There are those of us who do try all we can to live by compassion, though, and those are the people to have some faith in.
I think I might throw up.
this sort of thing needs to be brought to peoples attention. as you said education is key.
How utterly disgusting. Absolutely… and the captions, my god.
This is what every Iraqi should look like.
WTF? Where does this mentality come from.. I- I have such a hard time living in this country, in this world.. I can’t believe how incredibly horrible people can be..
Truly sickening.
can you put excerpts like that behind a cut in the future?
i read that first sentence without pause and it kinda sorta ruined my mood tonight.
for the record, i relealise experiencing that firsthand is way worse than what i just went through reading it here. but I’d just prefer to have the choice. (no serious offence taken).
Yeah, I’ll try to keep that in mind. It didn’t dawn on me that anyone might have it ruin their night.
Historical Perspective
Try to get your hands on Stephen E. Ambrose, “Americans at War”
There is an article in it called “My Lai: Atrocities in Historical Perspective” (A reference to the villager killings during Vietnam). It might help all of you understand why these kind of things happen in war. While I don’t completely agree with the article, I do have a better understanding of war time Atrocities and why they can happen. Any decent sized library should have this book.
Re: Historical Perspective
I’ll see if I can hunt that down; it sounds like an interesting read.