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So, you're saying that all along the argument was not that hoardes of journalists wanted access to the war-dead, just the AP?
What?
Um, no.
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Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC
Give me a break. Did you not read the article? Do you not recall how many were whining and crying because they were turned away at the gates of Dover? Do you not realize that those that were whining and crying are nowhere near the gates of Dover now that the gates are open? It's just a coincident that George W. Bush is no longer in office and one lone AP reporter is all that shows up these days?
You guys are nuts. You simply can't accept something as blatant as this, and even try to induce a coverup via far-fetched reasoning. Embarrassing.
And now you try to say that W's ratings fall was because of pictures of the war dead? LOL And you go further by trying to say that there was "dishonesty?" What is there to be dishonest about. War kills. People die. They come back in caskets draped in an American flag. What is dishonest about that? Absolutely nothing. Keeping it from the public purview is not an honest/dishonest thing, its a policy, so i'm not sure why you keep harping on honesty.
I've heard it all.
I really dont think you read my posts. "What is there to be dishonest about"?! Do you really not understand why Dick Cheney created that "policy" in the first place?
"War kills. People die." ???? Yeah they do. Maybe you'd understand what that means if a Republican explained it for you.
"It would be healthy for the people of our nation to pause for a moment and look the truth in the eye as we observe Memorial Day," said S.C. Rep. Liston Barfield. "I believe it would do the American people good to honestly come to terms with the idea that each person's individual freedom was purchased with the blood of our heroes. American heroes who suffered for freedom, yes, they suffered horribly. Many of them live with disabilities that will haunt them the rest of our lives; many died in the cause and defense of our freedom.
"It would be a wholesome thing for our nation to live up to the spirit of Memorial Day, to publicly grieve the dead of today's wars rather than hide their caskets from the public as if they were a source of public shame," Barfield continued. "These precious young men and women who gave the last breath of life for our country are the best our country has to offer. Meanwhile, our troops continue to fight in the desert of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. They fight and they bleed, and they die for you and for me. We must give them tribute ... honor, dignity and praise, and we must do this publicly."
Barfield's speech was one of the highlights of the Grand Strand Patriotic Alliance program.
The only related mention of this I see at Fauxnews.com is an appreciation sketch of a soldier who was killed, who had awfully liberal-seeming inclinations! Can Faux be changing its attitude?
(Faux's image source for that article is the Associated Press.)
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President Bush of trying to hide the terrible human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"These young men and women are heroes," Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. "The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong."
With casualties mounting, the debate over U.S. policy in Afghanistan is sharp and heated. The number of arrivals at Dover is increasing. But the journalists who once clamored to show the true human cost of war are nowhere to be found.
Without Bush, media lose interest in war caskets | Washington Examiner (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Without-Bush-media-lose-interest-in-war-caskets-8310113-62427012.html - broken link)
CBS just showed video of a casket being unloaded at Dover.
With Obama's obvious intent to replicate LBJ in Vietnam, get ready for a lot more of these photos.
We will then, again, be subject to the savaging of a liberal president by his own party's left wing.
The GOP has no monopoly on letting a lunatic fringe consume its essence.
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