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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Waiging of war

on the net continues.

Over at DP Review's Canon 10D Forum there is a post asking Is this photo altered - how good are you?.

To say that the topic has gone from a 'Do you think this is altered' to a anti-war would be wrong. But it has gone very off topic.

The original poster asked -
This is a very controversial photo that is being emailed around the world right now. The marine claims the pic - specifically the writing on the cardboard - was photoshopped. The media(and here and here) is all over his butt and Marines are having the Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigate to see if it was altered.

What do you think? It is small and very compressed but I think the writing is a little too light. I wish I could see the writing instrument to know for sure.

And that post has gotten comments like -
As for the folks who tortured the prisoners by heaping them naked and sodomising them and all, they should get the same treatment from their victims' hands - only then will they realize what sin they committed and how degraded they will feel.

If you want to make your own sign, you can go to http://www.ryano.net/iraq and make one up yourself. Is the image above PhotoShopped?

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Purportedly there are two versions of the image...

I'll let you know the NCIS version of the story when its released. Until then... hell... I dont know.

posted by Glenn H at 5/05/2004 06:52:00 AM

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