Michael Moore is a patriotic American who holds America to the high standard we want for our country. Moore is showing the consequences of an illegal war started by an incompetent president. The photographer in question has a right to sue but why? Moore is one of those few who is not afraid to talk about the “emperors new clothes”. Just look at how long ago he questioned Roger Moore about GM about their shoddy cars and how they destroyed towns in Michigan. Fast forward 30 years and Moore was correct. He also had the guts to question this countries gun culture and abysmal health care processes and costs. We need a lot more Michael Moores and a lot less George W. Bushes.

Our representatives who vote to finance these wars must see the consequences of their acts.  Like pilots who drop bombs from 3000 ft they don’t like to see their dirty work.  There is a reason that the powers that be don’t like Michael Moore.

MOORE has alway been OUT IN FRONT…Telling it AS HE SEES IT…Whether he is looking at other peoples photos or TRYING to PERSONALLY get in to see R.Smith….So WHAT if he sensationalizes?-It’s better-by far-than the WATERED DOWN VERSION of news? we ARE ALLOWED TO RECEIVE-after it has been cleaned up of blood and guts-toned down-and SANITIZED for OUR VIEW[cuz we aren’t ADULT enough to handle it otherwise]

The image is the cover of Yon’s book.  The lawsuit’s probably just about publicity.  It was a widely printed photo and Yon should’ve been credited by Moore (maybe he was?) — but I suspect it’s all just a PR move.

Murder is a crime. In no viable society can murderers have a future. The illegal, optional, elective military action in Iraq is not now, and never has been a “war”. Bush orchestrated the mass murder of a million people. That’s the gravest international crime. Claiming copyright on a photo documenting international murder ought to be denied. This ought to be public domain, whoever took the photo.
And it is an obscenity.

If Bush and Cheney, et al, had conscience, ethics, or shame, they’d go into hiding for the rest of their no doubt miserable lives. Recently Bush used the word “pathetic”. For once he was exactly right, but add disgusting, loathsome, insane.
Anybody who thinks it is OK to kill a million people for no good reason is, too.
The photo is some inadequate guy’s single claim to fame and he wants his rights. Pathetic.

Moore is a corrupt Progressive but, as LITTLEPROTHER suggeted, his artistic work is often admirable.  This is the usual harrassment of genuine progressivism, echoed this time by TruthDig.

I have, by now a very yellowed clipping, from the LATimes dated March 30, 2003.  The caption reads, “Comforted:  A medical corpsman with US Marines in central Iraq cradles a young girl after a group of civilians got caught in the cross-fire during a battle between Marines and Iraqi fighters.  To the north, allied warplanes pounded Iraqi forces near Baghdad.”

I imagine there are thousands of photographs similar to mine and Mr. Yon’s taken in Iraq since we began that war waged against the Iraqi people. I don’t deny Yon’s right to sue Moore, yet I wonder why nobody has thought to sue the perpetrators of that needless war.

I’m too much of a lefty to be satisfied with Moore’s equivocal politics, but I admire and appreciate his film work.

This article might as well have stayed on “The New York Post”.  If there’s a copyright violation, so be it; I’m sure Moore can handle the financial consequences.

But it’s truly a trivial issue—a pecadillo at worst.

It’s ironic that the photographer references the famous Iwo Jima photo—which, while authentic, depicted a larger flag being raised after the battle.  This distinction was not emphasized after the photo became wildly popular and famous.

But I digress.  This story is indeed a tempest in a teapot, as so many of the “scandalous” or would-be “debunking” stories about Moore are.

This reminds me exactly of the media’s seeking out science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury to get his opinion of Moore entitling his film “Fahrenheit 9-11”, a parody of Bradbury’s classic “Fahrenheit 451”.

Bradbury, apparently a crusty old reactionary, gruffed and harrumphed and said, in effect, that Moore had a helluva nerve!

It’s déjà vu all over again. 

The horror!  Boo-freaking-hoo.

Oh, that naughty Michael Moore! If I wasn’t so short I’d kiss him for putting that photo on his website. Gimme some truth indeed. Maybe some other, much more cowardly, people can now follow his example and show the hideous reality that only news outlets like Al Jazeera ever show. At least a million Iraqis are dead - this child was only one of them- and somehow Michael Moore is in the wrong fot acting as if her death mattered? Mad world.