American War Dead Peer Out from the Portraits of Their Killer
August 4, 2004: Two different initiatives have put the presidency
of George W. Bush into perspective. At last count, nearly 1,000
American soldiers were sent to Iraq thinking they were fighting
for American security. They returned to America in boxes, hidden
by their Government in the darkness of night. They now have their
proud faces peering out from the portraits of the man who is responsible
for their death.
The image on the left was created by "a group of us, concerned
and patriotic Americans." According to their website, they
began in February 2004, when there were about 400 fallen U.S. soldiers.
Due to their busy schedules, however, they were unable to get together
until June 2004 (by then there were over 850 fallen soldiers) to
finish the image.
The image on the right was posted to a blog in April 2004, without
much of a story or attribution.
Bring 'em on, declares this image of
George Bush made up of 400
dead American soldiers.
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this image as a 1.2 mg high-resolution jpg.
A more somber portrait
of George Bush, made up of several
hundred images of American war casualities.
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this image as a
2.5 mg high-resolution jpg.
