Friday Photo: Guns down

Posted By Blake Hounshell Friday, June 20, 2008 - 5:25 PM Share

KHALID MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images

Iraqi soldiers stand guard over rows of rifles seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, June 18, 2008.

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PIGASUS

5:23 PM ET

June 20, 2008

That's a lot of work for a photo op

This time of year Baghdad is well over 100 F in the afternoon.

If they had made prisoners lay those rifles out it would have been considered torture.

Blue Skies,

-->Preston

You are what you fight for.

RSPORTER

5:45 PM ET

June 20, 2008

Can someone tell me what the

Can someone tell me what the point of laying the guns out like that is? What a waste of time and energy. Would it not make more sense to destroy them or store them in an armory?

KIDZIB

6:16 PM ET

June 20, 2008

hmmmm...

pretty picture, complete waste of time, energy, and effort...

GRANDPAW7

8:22 AM ET

June 21, 2008

Good publicity stunt

Much more impressive than just saying that the security forces had captured so many guns. Of course, one has to wonder if some other guns got mixed in accidentally; sometimes, when you are doing a publicity stunt, stuff happens. One thing it does show is that the year old surge hasn't been all that successful in disarming the terrorists or stopping the flow of arms into terrorist hands.

TRUE NORTH

10:20 AM ET

June 21, 2008

It looks like these guns are about to be destroyed

The cheapest and fastest way to destroy these weapons is to lay them down on a hard surface and then to steam roll over them.

KIDZIB

12:46 PM ET

June 21, 2008

why destroy?

unless there's something wrong with those guns, they can be put to good use by the iraqi army...

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