Sorry, "Stuff Happens" is not an adequate excuse for thousands of dead kids. Try Again.

I've been reading a blog called Fallujah in Pictures it's full of pictures of dead and wounded Iraqi civilians, Iraqi Insurgents, and American Soldiers. If you truly believe that we are doing good in Iraq than I implore you to take a look at these photos. Unfortunately however, the blog allows comments, so there are pro-war geniuses making comments like this:

First off, yes its tragic that there is death in war. Its tragic that any loss of life happens, whether its soldiers or innocent civilians, BUT, this is a WAR and that stuff does happen.

With all due respect, posting these pictures with the intro you provided just tries to make everyone feel guilty for what we are doing. Yes it sucks for everyone involved, but its either we get them, or they get us.

The comment was posted anonymously. Personally, I think it was Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but I can't prove it. Anyway, are you finished? Well then... allow me to retort. If those pictures make you feel guilty there's a very good reason, do you want to guess it?

Anyone?

BECAUSE YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY YOU FUCKING MORON! This is your war, and you own it. Those dead babies aren't just George Bush's dead babies, they belong to everyone who supports this war. You are their Dead Baby Daddy. I must admit though, I do love the perfectly logical argument that the person publishing the pictures is the bad guy here. It reminds me of Donald Rumsfeld's initial solution to the Abu Ghraib problem: Ban cameras!

And the assertation that "stuff happens", while true at the Applied Physics level, does not quite do it for me as a moral and ethical justification for homicide. Why is it that no one said after Princess Diana died "HEY, STUFF HAPPENS! THOSE PAPARAZZI DID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO. WHEN YOU BRING YOUR 'A' GAME TO THE FIELD SOMETIMES PEOPLE GET HURT. TOUGH TITTY" Why does the callous and shallow disregard for human life only apply to certain forms of human life?