Iraqi Development what MSM/left doesn't want you to see.. (Mexican, deaths)

[pstratt]

If they took pictures of every death that happens then I would agree with you, but they don't. It's obviously about selling newspapers and advertising.

[Bud Dickman]

On 9-11 most newscasts should have just shown the WTC standing as they were that morning. And the next news story could have been about puppies.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by bily4

Actually military ceremonies for the dead happened frequently through the Clinton years and with the early Afghanistan years.

It was only when the dead began to really start to pile up in Iraq that the ban was enacted in force.

I]In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases. "There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops," the Defense Department said, referring to the major ports for the returning remains.

A Pentagon spokeswoman said the military-wide policy actually dates from about November 2000 -- the last days of the Clinton administration -- but it apparently went unheeded and unenforced, as images of caskets returning from the Afghanistan war appeared on television broadcasts and in newspapers until early this year [2003]. Though Dover Air Force Base, which has the military's largest mortuary, has had restrictions for 12 years, others "may not have been familiar with the policy," the spokeswoman said. This year, "we've really tried to enforce it."" [/i]

iraq: [Dover AFB Casket Photos Controversey]


Mr. Grassley noted that the policy had been in place since the first Bush administration, in 1991. ''This policy has been in place for 13 years,'' he said. ''Nobody has raised a complaint about it until now.''

But the policy has not been consistently followed; President Bill Clinton took part in numerous ceremonies honoring dead servicemen.

Senate Backs Ban on Photos Of G.I. Coffins - New York Times

So it's still policy....so now following policy is wrong for the Bush Administration...man you guys are all over the place with your morals. And yes I saw that info while reading the original.....if you read the link it was written in there

[walidm]

Originally Posted by Bud Dickman

On 9-11 most newscasts should have just shown the WTC standing as they were that morning. And the next news story could have been about puppies.

lol....That, was funny.

[Bud Dickman]

Originally Posted by pstratt

If they took pictures of every death that happens then I would agree with you, but they don't. It's obviously about selling newspapers and advertising.

An 80 year old man, a junkie and someone hit by a car weren't sent to their deaths by the government.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by Bud Dickman

On 9-11 most newscasts should have just shown the WTC standing as they were that morning. And the next news story could have been about puppies.

It's disgraceful to the families to take pictures of soldiers before the family even see them....Do you want your body promoted for political gain before your family can mourn over you?

It's really just that simple.

The press has never been censored and always allowed in war zones during battle.....what you want reported....you only show actual people dead for the selling factor.

[pstratt]

You keep going back to Vietnam, this isn't Vietnam. There is not a mission that exists that isn't compromised in some way by having to drag a photog around with you.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by Bud Dickman

An 80 year old man, a junkie and someone hit by a car weren't sent to their deaths by the government.

I guess all these people were sent to theri deaths also huh?

American War Deaths Throughout History

No good came of any of that...Just us sitting here chatting away on the internet about how bad life is.

[Bud Dickman]

Originally Posted by BigJon3475

It's disgraceful to the families to take pictures of soldiers before the family even see them....Do you want your body promoted for political gain before your family can mourn over you?

It's really just that simple.

So we cant watch live news. Because as those people in the WTC jumped and were killed inside the buildings I'm sure their families hadn't been notified. Also, no one has pimped the burnt corpses of 9-11 victims more then Republicans.

[kidicarus89]

Originally Posted by BigJon3475

I guess all these people were sent to theri deaths also huh?

American War Deaths Throughout History

No good came of any of that...Just us sitting here chatting away on the internet about how bad life is.

Many of those (okay a few of them) were righteous military actions, so......?