Reporting on the Vietnam war

Bert Westbrook recalled from the Vietnam war "a very famous picture, which may have been the cover of Time magazine, of a girl fleeing a napalm attack. She survived, moved to the U.S., and went to college". David Krieger writes: "No one seems to be following up on my line of discussion about the photo. It is interesting about what happened to the young girl in the photo as she grew older, but I find it far more interesting to look at this photograph, similar to the photographs at Abu Ghraeb, for what they tell us about ourselves as a society. I am going to forward you a report about the costs of the Iraq War. I think this report from the Institute for Policy Studies and the new Michael Moore film are far more pertinent to a consideration of this illegal war than the happy face that Bill Frist would like to put on it. On balance, it seems clear that we have done far more damage in human, social and economic terms than we have righted with our “reconstruction” (translated: transfer of taxpayer dollars to Halliburton, et.al.) activities".