Texsox Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 What have we brought to this country? Link BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - In an outdoor food market under the fierce midday sun, a crowd of men and boys were watching video footage of a truck bomber seated behind the steering wheel, smiling and murmuring his last words before crashing into U.S. military vehicles on an overpass. Elsewhere, the TV set in a coffee shop was offering customers the video of foreign hostages being beheaded. In a city battered and traumatized by 17 months of violence that seems to grow worse by the day, real-life horror has become the viewing fare of choice, supplanting the explosion of pornography that filled the post-Saddam Hussein vacuum. Baghdad wakes up each day to explosions, gunfire, ambulance sirens and the clatter of low-lying American helicopters. But the ferocity of this month's violence in the heart of the Iraqi capital is unprecedented - fierce gunbattles, car bombings that claim dozens of lives, brazen kidnappings, assassinations and barrages of mortars and rockets. It threatens to destroy what's left of peoples' hopes for their country, which ran so high when the hated Saddam was toppled. The horrifying videos on display or sold for as little as 30 cents apiece are all over Baghdad these days. "Soon after the regime fell, porno discs were all the rage," said Attallah Zeidan, a co-owner of a second hand bookshop in Baghdad's Old City. "Now it's beheadings." More at Link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Honda Civic Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 hard to fap to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASHWOUND Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 What have we brought to this country? Link More at Link. That's hard to fathom, but it does tell you something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelasDaddy0427 Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 That's awful. I do not understand what would drive someone to watch one of those videos more then once. I saw the beheading of Nick Berg, and it was burned into my retinas. I don't need to see anyone else beheaded like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSteve Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 Not on this computer, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted September 27, 2004 Author Share Posted September 27, 2004 Back in the late 70s early 80s the Faces of Death series was very popular. This sort of depravity isn't new or unique. Anyone care to go to the coluseum and watch them feed Christians to the lions? It's a double feature, there will be gladiator fights afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Prawn Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 Back in the late 70s early 80s the Faces of Death series was very popular. This sort of depravity isn't new or unique. Anyone care to go to the coluseum and watch them feed Christians to the lions? It's a double feature, there will be gladiator fights afterwards. Well into the early 90s Faces of Death was popular (when I was in HS). I never could understand how people could stomach that. The description alone was enough to make me queazy. :puke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Gleason Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 FOD was popular with teens and such looking to be "daring" or whatever you want to call it. But you would NEVER find that stuff being shown in public locations. It does say A LOT about things over there, both about what we have done to them, and also what some of the society is about over there. There was a lot of death and destruction within Nazi Germany, but when the people found out about the atrocities being commited, the nation was disgusted and ashamed. Such viewings would never have happened. I understand these people have had war all of their lives, but there is very little humanity there if this is entertainment for a nation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1549 Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 Imagine how a porno that ended with a beheading would sell in Iraq... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubsSuck1 Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 Odd, because I know a lot of people, especially parents, who don't care if their children are exposed to violence, but go nuts at the slightest bit of nudity or porn. Pretty bad, if you think about what it is teaching kids. But seeing how this is real violence in times of war, I could see how people would think that it is sick, because it is. Never seen FOD, but I know a lot of it was faked, and you'd have to be pretty f'd up in the head to go around prasing death like they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 That's awful. I do not understand what would drive someone to watch one of those videos more then once. I saw the beheading of Nick Berg, and it was burned into my retinas. I don't need to see anyone else beheaded like that. What even made you want to see that Nick Berg video? :headshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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