Marine and the fiancèe

Marine and the fiancèe

Thousands of people request in Washington the retirement of Iraq

The American Nina Berman remained with the first place of the category Pictures, with an image of marine American that returned of Iraq contracting marriage.

While until the 15 of February of this year, they already add 3,130 the number of died North American soldiers in Iraq from the beginning from the invasion to the country in March of 2003, and transform to this war into the second most expensive one of the history only surpassed by World War II, marine returns to its country with the evident vestiges of the irrational battle fought with dark motivations of bottom by the foreign policy of a government who just begins to understand size computational error.

The image, was winning in its category of the annual aid of Wold Press Photo and it shows the human side to us after you cold dead and wounded numbers of that arrive day to us at day. Meanwhile, not even we reached to determine the proportions the massacre that is lived in Iraq after the fall of Hussein, where has occurred loose rein to the religious passions between Sunitas and Shiítas. Thus, on the one hand we have the dogmatismo of a super intolerante power, and by another one the religious and ideological dogmatismo of brothers who cannot share the Earth and where justice is in the gift and the hands with blood and whose final result is a right powder magazine in the heart of the hinge between the West and orients, cradles of the civilization (paradoxicalally) and owner of the greater reserves of crude.

The elocuencia of the image, rescues rictus of a fiancèe with the taciturn face, in signal of which it only obtains the love. Love that is perhaps the best prescription to restrain a so useless and sterile war as this one, or rather, almost the best prescription (after petroleum, of course, in the facts - in sum after the money). Happy day of the enamored ones…