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The War On Terror?

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This painting contains the names of 170 Iraqi civilians(aged "infant" to 85 years old) that the United States has slaughtered, in the name of oil.

It would take about 12 of these canvases to include the names of every dead Iraqi civilian recorded here as of the time of original submission to dA.

As of 10/24/05, it would take a total of approximately 176 more of these canvases to write every name of every Iraqi the United States has ruthlessly murdered.

That's not even considering the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people killed as a result of US sanctions(low estimates are around 1,000,000 deaths, and high estimates are around 2,000,000 deaths).

To use some of Bono's words...
I'm sick and tired of Americans talking about the Democratic Revolution in Iraq, and the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory in sending a missile down a street of homes? Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dying under the rubble of the revolution...
Image size
743x1000px 1.1 MB
Make
NIKON
Model
E3100
Shutter Speed
10/2222 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
100
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Thanks for being brave enough to post this. It's a wonderful piece of art with a very impactful statement and one I feel needs to be seen and heard. When is enough enough? Please ignore the hate comments being posted here because as i read them I see this post being led away from the statement it's trying to portray. Thats what fear mongers do,,lead us astray