That is perhaps why this photograph, an iconic image of the war in Iraq, is so viscerally affecting. In early 2005, U.S. soldiers killed the parents of this 5-year-old girl and wounded her brother when they fired at the family's advancing vehicle in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar. The stark terror on her face, like the blood of her parents, is impossible to ignore. If you were against the war, this picture would be your banner. If you supported the war, it would weigh on your conscience. Images like this also remind us of the wide gulf in conflict between the relief of security and liberation and the chaos of mutilation and death.
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