You may recall this photo from 2005:

It shows a US soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a suicide car bomb blast in Mosul, Iraq.

Unsurprisingly– but nevertheless disgustingly– the photo has been appropriated for anti-American purposes to suggest that the US was somehow responsible for this atrocity.

"We were told we were fighting terrorists" pic.twitter.com/K13aRt0dk6 — bahib il Lahme Kteer (@iitsAli) January 19, 2014

Shades of Leon Kuhn.

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