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OK, first of all, neither the uniform nor the weapon are consistent with anything that US troops have worn in Iraq.

Second, as others have mentioned, there's no splash on the helmet-top.

Third, look at how the kid is standing; the boy's feet are placed at such an angle that it's highly improbable that he'd be able to pee outward at the angle that the stream would have to take in order to hit the soldier's head.  He'd have to be peeing sideways.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Fri Oct 26th, 2007 at 10:34:08 PM EST
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What a strange collection of responses.
This is an image with a message, and if it was techically assembled in one way or another, --what difference does it make? Can no one let go of the urge to piss in it technically long enough to laugh?
It was clearly intended to be a laugh-- a guffaw from the heart, to know that others view mechanized slaughter with the contempt it deserves.
It was a gift to me from, a kind man in Denmark, ---who got it, and knew I would too.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 04:24:40 AM EST
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I seem to remember a thorough exposure of the fake, but can't find it now. Only this Italian page claiming the soldier in the photo-montage is Finnish.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 05:01:16 AM EST
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lookin at the kit the soldier is holding, I think He's Israeli

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 06:19:53 AM EST
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But neither the arm insignia, nor the helmet, nor the gun looks like Israeli to me. That said, the gun doesn't look like that Finnish weapon, either.

At any rate, now I found that the image first spread on the web during April 2003, the earliest I found so far is 6 April 2003 in What Really Happened.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 10:30:52 AM EST
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I have this picture stored on my pc, dated 1992.
Can't remember where it came from but it was in my map with Palestinian struggle documentation.
The weapon is a Galil AR 7.62mm, an Israëli weapon from the 70's-80's based on the Finnish concept of the Valmet Rk.62 on his turn a licenced version of the AK-47 ( incredible this weapon-stories).

Of course the hole point of the picture is obvious
No matter what weapon, nationality or composed image: this picture expresses what a lot of people think about war.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 11:30:17 AM EST
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That looks like it. And these IDF soldiers appear to sport the same helmet which looked unfamiliar to me (must be an earlier model). But the shoulder tags don't resemble any of these.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 12:31:34 PM EST
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Of course the hole point of the picture is obvious

If I was looking for  a point of the picture, I'd say it was far more likely to be a piece of pro-intifada propaganda from the 90's

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 at 05:22:45 PM EST
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