Smoking while Iraq burns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1359871,00.html
Its idolisation of 'the face of Falluja' shows how numb the US is to
everyone's pain but its own
Naomi Klein
Friday November 26, 2004
The Guardian
Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph
of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old marine from Appalachia, who has
been christened "the face of Falluja" by pro-war pundits, and the "the
Marlboro man" by pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a
hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows Miller
"after more than 12 hours of nearly non-stop, deadly combat" in
Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody scratch on his nose,
and a freshly lit cigarette hanging from his lips.
Naomi Klein
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Falluja
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