A day in the life of President Bush (12/30/2006): photos & the reasons we took down Saddam Hussein

WhiteHouse.gov & various ^ | 12/30/06

[Wolfstar]

Note to all: This is a strong thread, unusual for a Dose thread. With Stalinist Saddam Hussein now dead, revisionists already trying to place a gauzy veil over the truth about Hussein, and the seditious Democrats in Congress preparing to revise history by destroying a great man, we must prepare ourselves for what may be the fight of our lives. So, as you look at these very difficult images, remember that the Islamofacists want to do that to you, your families, your children and grandchildren. President Bush has stood like a rock between them and us. Now we must stand like a rock between him and those who are out to destroy him.

KEEP IN MIND AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS THREAD, THIS IS WHAT PRESIDENT BUSH KNEW AND FEARED AFTER THE ANTRAX ATTACKS ON OUR COUNTRY IN 2001.

[Wolfstar]

Pinging you to the final 2006 Saturday Dose. Brace yourself.

[onyx]

Oh oh.

[Wolfstar]

PHOTO OF THE DAY: President George Walker Bush speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002.

GWB at the UN, 9/12/02.

[onyx]

I just refreshed the page and I won again this week! We're all on the President Ford funeral thread.

[Wolfstar]

President Bush listens to Dr. Katrin Michael, right, Della Jaff and Idres Hawarry, foreground, in the Oval Office, Friday, March 14, 2003. The three are from the Kurdish area of Iraq where a chemical weapons attack killed 5,000 citizens 15 years ago [that] weekend. Thousands died in the days following the attack on Halabja and an estimated 10,000 people still suffer from the attack. Idres Hawarry survived the attack on Halabja, Dr. Michael survived a similar attack in another Kurdish village, and friends and family of Della Jaff were killed in Halabja.

President Bush says good bye to Dr. Katrin Michael, Della Jaff and Idres Hawarry, March 14, 2003, after speaking with them.

[Howlin]

Bump.

And gimme my toaster.

[ThePythonicCow]

You first again ?!?

[Wolfstar]

The next series of photos are very difficult to see, but I am a very big proponent of unvarnished reportorial truth. I urge you to steel yourself and view them. There are two photos in particular that I debated long and hard about posting on the thread, instead of just posting a link. I finally decided to just post a link, because there are children who might see this thread before an adult could intervene.

This is the first of the two photos I came close to openly posting. Trust me, folks, there isn't much in this world that shakes me to my core, but this photo did. It is of a young Kurdish boy. Difficult to tell his age -- maybe four or five. There is what looks like a ball near him. You can tell he's a beautiful child. He almost looks like he's asleep. Like maybe he got tired from playing and lay down for a nap. But he's dead. Lying in the dirt of Halabja with the froth caused by Hussein's chemical weapons covering the lower part of his face.

Kurdish boy.

[Wolfstar]

This is the second photo I almost openly posted. It is of an infant, no more than a few months old. Can't tell the sex of the baby, so I'll refer to the child as a he. He appears to be lying in a hospital bed. His face is discolored a deep red. His eyes appear swollen shut. The chemical burns on his body are dressed in an ointment of some kind. I don't know if this child survived.

Kurdish baby.

[Wolfstar]

This one is heartbreaking on several levels, but seeing the child with the cowboy boots...what words suffice?

Cowboy boots in Hussein's Kurdistan.

[Wolfstar]

This, along with the photo of the young mother with her body over her baby, trying to protect the child, is the most well-known photo from the Halabja horror.

Silent scream.

[ThePythonicCow]

I think we're waaay too late for the toaster, Howlin.

[ilovew]

Fabulous idea, Wolfstar.

[onyx]

You can have mine if you'll post it on your page!

[ilovew]

Congratulations! :)

[Wolfstar]

More horrific photos from Halabja.

Halabja 1

Halabja 2

Halabja 3

Halabja 4

Halabja 5

Halabja 6

Halabja 7

Halabja 8

Halabja 9

Halabja 10

Halabja 11

Halabja 12

Halabja 13

Halabja 14

Halabja 15

Halabja 16

Halabja 17

[Wolfstar]

Photos of Iranian soldiers severely burned by an Iraqi mustard gas attack.

Iranian soldiers 1

Iranian soldier 2

[Wolfstar]

Halabja's pain, grief and rage.

For those who may miss it, Saddam Hussein is the winged monster in the wall painting.

[Wolfstar]

Halabja's memorials.

This is the mother and baby depicted in the above memorial.