sigh... a photo's worth 1000 words

[mimitabby]

a coworker sent me a smarmy photo of smirky jogging with
a guy with a fake leg entitled "a photo is worth 1000 words.
i need a good (photo) response.
thanks
MImi

ps i'm a newby and don't know how to add a photo to this post in case you all want to see it.

[LuminousX]

1. Simply ask the person to indicate what the photo means to him/her

I don't see any reason why a response is necessary.

[russian33]

2. here you go:

From bartcop.com, via icasualties.org

[Wickerman]

3. He could've at least given the guy a ride

in one of his goofy golf carts.

[derrald]

4. _

[Gregorian]

5. A lie is worth 1000 lives.

[frylock]

26. most excellent

:thumbsup:

[irancontra]

6. how about

A Dubya lie cost a 1000 deaths.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Careful. The guy lost his leg in Iraq. Saw him on the news.

Be careful. The guy lost his leg in Iraq and has great spirit. He made a giant sacrifice for his country and deserves respect.

[mimitabby]

8. i agree

the guy is a hero. but the other guy is who my friend cares about
this is what his email said:
(barf)
Well, last week they went on the run, 1 mile with the president. Not something you'll see in the news, but seeing the president taking the time to say thank you to the wounded and to give hope to one of my best friends was one of the greatest/best things I have seen in my life. It almost sounds like a corny email chain letter, but God bless him.


Justin
CPT Justin P. Dodge, MD
Flight Surgeon, 1-2 AVN RGT
Medical Corps, U.S. Army

You may want to pass this to everyone you know.
The media is pulling every dirty trick in the book to undermine our president's popularity in the polls.
Let's join together and be all the media our president needs to get the truth out to the public about who he really is! Blessings to all.

[comsymp]

15. And there's the response!

Yeah, any American should be proud of SSgt McNaughton. To have suffered such a devastating wound and have recovered with such courage is an inspiration to us all. I don't know if I'd have the class to actually go jogging with a Commander in Chief whose own record of cowardice and dereliction of duty is a slap in the face to the brave young men and women he sent into harm's way, and to the families of the 1200+ servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, whose final homecomings he has ordered hidden like some shameful secret. Funny how you don't see him staging a photo op with them, huh?

[Stephanie]

9. Here

[chiburb]

10. I'd say that he'd still have BOTH legs if not for Dim Son:

[jpgray]

11. I'd rather he still had both his legs, and this photo-op never happened

But then, I'd rather 1,000 of our soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis were still alive too. We're funny that way.

[mimitabby]

12. so far i wrote:

really D, I sat through 8 years of you guys making jokes about Bill Clinton and I didn’t try to convince you of his purity. Or try to convince you to vote for him.
So why is it now that you are sending me a carefully posed photo op?
I would be more impressed if he’d done it without the press there to show everyone how wonderful he is.
The fact that that young veteran can run a mile again is awesome, but the fact that the president used this as an opportunity to prove his valor or whatever doesn’t impress me at all.
Further, why doesn't he REALLY do something to help veterans,
instead of cutting their benefits and giving tax breaks to the rich?
Oh don't get me started.

[chiburb]

14. And so far, so good...

:-)

[Wickerman]

17. that's very good

I like it.

[Cronus Protagonist]

13. Send him here - tons of photos

http://bushspeaks.com

:)

[mimitabby]

16. thanks guys

really D, I sat through 8 years of you guys making jokes about Bill Clinton and I didn’t try to convince you of his purity. Or try to convince you to vote for him.
So why is it now that you are sending me a carefully posed photo op?
I would be more impressed if he’d done it without the press there to show everyone how wonderful he is.
The fact that that young veteran can run a mile again is awesome, but I'd rather he still had both his legs, and this photo-op never happened. I’m funny that way.
The fact that the president used this as an opportunity to prove his valor or whatever doesn’t impress me at all.
Further, why doesn't he REALLY do something to help veterans,
instead of cutting their benefits and giving tax breaks to the rich?
Oh don't get me started.

[mimitabby]

18. ps, i used those funny photos thanx

[enki23]

19. yeah, it's truly awful that the poor kid lost his leg due to bush's lies

worse yet that he was ordered to be a prop for a photo op.

[faithfulcitizen]

20. I got that from a repub too!!! here's the problem with it....

If I remember correctly, it goes on to tout how bush does all of these wonderful things and you never hear about it in the press, and you certainly wouldn't see them use it for political purposes...Well, I'll be damned! It showed up in a major video spot at the RNC. Yeah, they wouldn't use the story for Novak to show on crossfire-they use it in the most public way possible-at their convention!!

[tanyev]

21. Ask your coworker if they can send you

a picture of * at a soldier's funeral.

[mimitabby]

22. if he writes back, i will. good thought. nt

[HFishbine]

23. A thousand words?

First names or last names?

[crickets]

24. Send him this

It's a link to pictures of the thousand servicemen and women who have died in Iraq so far.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20040909_THOUSAND_GRAPHIC/index_PICTURES.html

[sofa king]

25. Story and picture for Photoshoppers

Here's the story:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/mikemcnaughton.htm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/jogging.asp

Where you will also find what I suspect is the picture.



And here's a few facts to go along with that story. Staff Sergeant Mike McNaughton is one of seven thousand Americans who have been wounded in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.



That's the official figure released by the Department of Defense. And we can't forget the 1132 dead in Iraq and Afghanistan alone....



And the thirteen thousand or so estimated Iraqi and Afghani civilian deaths, plus an order of magnitude more wounded.



But as Washingtonians can tell you, at least Bush is running in the right direction in the picture above: straight out of town.

The statistics can be found here:

http://antiwar.com/casualties/