Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins

[phillybri]

Sorry if this is a dupe, but it got me fired up...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55816-2003Oct20.html

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Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.

To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.

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A White House spokesman said Bush has not attended any memorials or funerals for soldiers killed in action during his presidency as his predecessors had done, although he has met with families of fallen soldiers and has marked the loss of soldiers in Memorial Day and Sept. 11, 2001, remembrances.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Pay no attention to the bodies behind the curtain

nothing to see here

[LoneStarLiberal]

2. The Media Has Shown Signs of Life; Therefore...

Since the media has shown signs of life and, at least in some small places, has questioned the administration's "Iraq is all peachy" message, the administration is going to play hardball with them where they can.

It is true that they are enforcing rules that have been in place for quite some time. The question isn't one of why they are enforcing these rules now but rather why were these rules not enforced in the past? What does this administration have to hide?

The terrible ultimate price of their policies, that's what: Bodies of dead Americans coming home one final time.

[Octafish]

3. Bush covers up the men and women who made the Ultimate Sacrifice

How can Bush not even afford them the dignity of a welcome home in broad daylight? They DESERVE to be recognized by ALL Americans. That would be the least we could do. They gave their lives to help keep us free. And the guy who sent them in harm's way wants to cover them up? Bush truly is low.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

4. during Vietnam, had photos daily of the caskets arriving stateside

Ask any one who lived thru Vietnam War era.

Military planes unloading the dead.

1000s of the flag-draped caskets shown on national TV news.


Bush propaganda machine has stopped ALL photos of the unloading

[Zorra]

5. "An Army of One" - for anyone who missed it.

Symbolman's and Take Back the Media's flash video. A little public dissemination of "such images", to help lose support for the war.

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html

"Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets".

"To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases".