Proof that the Iraqis like US soldiers

In much of the Middle East, A "thumbs up" is like giving one the finger. Different cultures have different digital signals.

The kid on the left doesn't look so happy

Oooh, I just read the title. WRONG!

First of all, it's a picture from over the internet which is easily edited to make anything seem like something else. For all we know, the sign might have originally said "I masturbate."

Second, those children could have easily been persuaded to pose for the picture by offering them any number of things.

Third, the children might not have even known what the sign said due to the fact that English isn't the primary language in Iraq.

Fourth, how do we even know that those children are in Iraq? They could be from Alabama!

And finally, two people, especially two children, do not represent all of Iraq.

Okay, I give up:

http://www.ryano.net/iraq/

Was this warm fuzzy propaganda piece made before or after the US soldier attached electrodes to the boy's genitals?

Just wondering.

That's a kinda funny website. I'm trying to decide what I wanna put on 'my' sign.

dangnabit

Glad I popped in now. That is pretty funny. Now in the first, obviously unedited picture (hee hee) is that a pistol the soldier is holding against the kid's back, or is he just happy to see him?

Hehe, It does say what I thought it said!

Actually the original picture is kinda sad:

http://www.officialspin.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=1404

Well, if Tarantulas doesn't belive this



here's the article in the
Marine Corps Time from April 09, 2004

There are a couple of these photos on the internet. In the one version (see above) posted at www.imagedump.com, a Web site that allows users to upload photos, the sign says "Lcpl. Boudreaux saved my dad th[en] he rescued my sister." Another reads "My country got invaded and all I got was this lousy sign."

There' an article on the Marine Corps Times from 19, April, titled

Corps reopens investigation into controversial photo


and 'snopes' say "Status: Undetermined. "


Nevertheless, this would perhaps "prove" that two Iraquian boys liked the USA one year ago :wink:

I have to question whether any of these signs can be belived.

At least, cav, there must have been one original - but all more than one year ago.

The real signal is those two boys with their knuckles together; it means Bush is a knucklehead.

Here's the "saved my dad" sign. I looked at both of them up close and can't figure out which one is the original. So I'm not going to make a judgment one way or the other. I do find it interesting that in the "killed my Dad" sign, there's a capital "K" in "Knocked up." I would prefer to believe that the Lance Corporal actually did save the lives of two people and then had his sign changed by an devious left-winger, but we don't know the answer to that yet. What we do have is a website where you can add funny captions to a sign. I haven't been able to save a sign yet though - too bad.