First, here is what is likely the most famous photo from the Vietnam War. The running Vietnamese girl forgave the pilot who napalmed her. I wonder whether the little Iraqi girl covered with the blood of her parents, shot at an American roadblock, will be able to forgive someday.
Here is another famous Vietnam photo of a spy being casually shot by a South Vietnamese chief of police, which started the American disenchantment with South Vietnam government.
And here is the Fallaugh contractor-burning photo which appalled America, and showed Americans that Iraq was still a war zone. Click here to see how Fallaujh looks today.
And finally, here are two photos unique to Iraq.
First, the Abu Ghraib photo which may well become the most famous photo from this war. And second, this sad, sad photo of a little boy whose brains were blown out during the bombing of Baghdad was shown all over Aljazeera TV during the first week of the war. Western networks refused to show it, even when the coverage of the boy's death itself became a news story. So it took a long time before Americans understood that people all over the Middle East were angry about the War in Iraq.
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