I think the photos that stick in my mind the most from that conflict, were the Iranian civilian dead in the streets of the border towns. Hussein's forces deployed chemical weapons on them...
Foxriver: I edited your post to removed the pictures of the dead.
Regardless of who they are, we need to have some respect for
the dead. We don't need that here.....
ccheese:Thanks for your edit.
In the beginning ,I ingnored that problerm.
Yes,we should have some respect for the dead.
We should against wars and the countries to wage wars in the world,thank you!
I think the photos that stick in my mind the most from that conflict, were the Iranian civilian dead in the streets of the border towns. Hussein's forces deployed chemical weapons on them...
I think that sticks in my mind the most also. As well as the horrifying photos of the chemical attacks on the Kurdish villages, with women and families littering the streets.
You have the shock-value of people seeing war violence for what it really is, horrifying and ugly.
On the otherhand, media overkill of death and gore can tend to dull the senses.
An example would be the 4 men brutally murdered in Fallujah a few years back. While the western world revulsed at the horrible spectacle of the slaughter and treatment of thier corpses, the locals there danced and partied while it was going on and when the footage was shown on area news broadcasts, the viewers cheered as if they were watching a soccer match...