Angel Heart
Conservative Hippie
It's not their picture bucko. It's taxpayer property.
The photograph was taken by a AP employee. It's property of the AP.
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It's not their picture bucko. It's taxpayer property.
Jesus fucking tapdancing Christ!!!
This is just as bad as the over-sensitive lefties getting their panties in a bunch over an inncuous boy comment.
Yes. Environmentalists are like watermellons:Green is actually the new socialism. It's just a new way to pass all of the socialist ideas into law.
John Kerry, anyone?Why are war heroes always such retards?
I personally wouldn't have responded that way to the Iwo Jima picture. But I can see where someone military might think that co-opting the imagery would do a disservice to it.
I just hate the way people on the right are always talking about the left being so "politically correct" on this or that issue, but the SECOND you say anything about the troops or do anything that might even remotely, possibly, rub a veteran the wrong way, youre suddenly a "chickensh!t coward", or doing someone, somewhere "a disservice", or whathaveyou. That's the real bullsh!t that surrounds this issue . . .
do i WANT to? - no, not particularily. but you are a sensitive one and i knew that, so i should have been more clear about where i was going with the post, sorry.
i know youre not on the right, and i know youre just expressing some empathy for how it might make someone feel - i'm not criticizing you in either regard.
I was merely using your statement that they might feel as though they had been done "a disservice" as a launching point for how silly it is for THEM to feel that way. It wasn't a statement about YOU at all.
That doesn't leave much at all.
Perhaps it's just imagery itself that you dislike.
Like I said, perhaps you don't care much for imagery at all. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you know that a metaphor isn't the same thing as imagery.
I like imagery. But like I said, I think there are things that shouldn't be diminished. Slavery is slavery. Nazis are nazis and the holocaust is the holocaust. I hate when those words/images are used with reference to lesser things.
Why should the vets be upset? The "famous photo" was staged!
I see their point but that photo was inspirational to the folks back home. Using the photo to inspire someone to plant a tree may symbolize the planting of justice on Iwo. It's possible, isn't it?
I think some people have way too much time on their hands to nitpick every thing that comes along!