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Mon Jun-21-04 07:30 PM
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Senate Won't Overturn War Dead Media Ban |
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate refused on Monday to change a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead as their remains arrive in flag-draped caskets. "It's an outrage," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who had sponsored legislation to restore coverage of homecoming ceremonies at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. more http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-war-dead-media,0,540768.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
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Mon Jun-21-04 07:34 PM
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1. Did the Senate also ban the news from telling the total war dead daily? |
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Once the deaths reached 800, the media stopped reporting total numbers and now they just report the number dead in single incidents.
These poor RW muther effers have NO idea how many of our men & women are dying over there.
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Mon Jun-21-04 07:46 PM
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2. I need to hug a fuzzy animal, too |
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PBS NOW devastated the P-cons this weekend, showing that they are purposefully hiding the "non-combat" dead and injured.
If it weren't for fuzzy animals, I'd be crazy angry.
Wait, I am crazy angry.
Well, it'd be worse.
Anyway, I want every coffin covered coming home covered live: like every shock and awe bomb was.
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Mon Jun-21-04 07:49 PM
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3. have to say that I was surprised to see |
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ABC Evening news showing the dead bodies of the 4 marines lying where they were found in Iraq on the tube tonight.
Was very graphic newsblurb coverage.
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Mon Jun-21-04 08:00 PM
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I was also surprised! The casualties of war right here in our living rooms?
My son is a Marine, though not yet in Iraq. Seeing those four young men brought tears to my eyes.
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Mon Jun-21-04 08:01 PM
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8. This whole thing has been Shocking and awfully fucking embarrassing |
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Mon Jun-21-04 08:05 PM
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9. considering we got to watch Reagan's coffin for a week |
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Edited on Mon Jun-21-04 08:07 PM by G_j
I'd like to hear them explain why we can't see our fallen troops coffins.
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Tue Jun-22-04 01:37 AM
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12. Not only was Reagan's coffin |
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in our face, we paid to have it jetted cross-country - twice - and paraded around and displayed like it was some sort of holy relic we were all supposed to venerate.
The remains of this 93-year-old alzheimer's patient, who left the political stage long ago, were given a send-off worthy of the worst excesses of British royalty. Meantime, the teenage enlistees, their lives cut short due to Bushco's arrogance, greed, and illegal, criminal invasion of Iraq, are ordered hidden from view by the same hypocrites falling all over themselves to honor "the gipper."
Disgusting and vile.
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Tue Jun-22-04 09:08 AM
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16. one case serves Republican interests |
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Tue Jun-22-04 06:41 AM
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13. I've noticed that too. |
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No more numbers, out of sight out of mind. They must have gotten their marching orders from the rightwing again.
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Mon Jun-21-04 07:51 PM
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4. I'm having one of those |
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moments of hopelessness it's been a bad day for the people all around. Got Democracy? I can't find it. I've been outraged for so long I'm starting to wear down it's what they want isn't it? Note it's only for a moment but I'm very sad right now it feels like a Friday dump bad news day on a Monday.:cry:
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Mon Jun-21-04 07:52 PM
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5. so the pentagon trumps the constitution? |
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where is a reporter with guts to exercise their free press rights?
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Mon Jun-21-04 07:58 PM
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6. Oh, well that's just fine, just fine and dandy indeed. Then there should |
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also be a ban on covering ANY dead that result from this "war on terra". So, should there be another "terrist" attack, there should be no propaganda coverage. And if they just so happen to get Shrub or any of his cronies, same thing - no coverage.
It is a war after all!
Yet this idiot-son-of-an-asshole would use the flag draped fireman on a gurney image from 9-11 in one of his stupid ads. Guess that was before the "war on terra" was declared, huh?
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Mon Jun-21-04 08:14 PM
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10. here's the difference between Repugs and Dems... |
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Congressional Dems, for whatever reason right or wrong, will not march lockstep to protect a failure of a President. The Repugs in Congress exist solely and completely as an arm of the misAdministration. No independent thought, no notion of their constituents' needs. "Must protect President" is their only operating procedure.
I gotta admit, they have discipline. Of course, so did the SS.
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Tue Jun-22-04 01:01 AM
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Tue Jun-22-04 06:49 AM
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14. Another Brick In The Wall! |
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Congress (the House and the Senate) has been bought and paid for since roughly the moment Clinton took the Oath of Office. This cowardly move by the Senate is just one more disgusting example.
:grr: dbt
"Support the Troops," my shiny metal ass!
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Tue Jun-22-04 08:11 AM
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Tue Jun-22-04 09:28 AM
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Who are the seven Democrats who bolted on this issue? OK, one is Zell, so who are the other six?
AND only 93 Senators voted! Who didn't show up to vote??
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Tue Jun-22-04 11:28 AM
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Looks like Not-Voting were Clinton, Dodd, and Kerry for the Dems. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=2&vote=00132#nameAt least my WI senators continue to be good people. Go Russ Feingold!
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:34 AM
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18. In US News & World Report this week |
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Letters to editor showed the outrage over seeing st. ronnie's flag draped coffin all over the place while our veteran's remains are treated as some sort of state secret.....
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:36 AM
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19. Draft-dodging Frist won't allow it |
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:39 AM
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20. Lyrics: 5:45 - Gang of Four |
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How can I sit and eat my tea, with all that blood flowing from the television. At a quarter to six, I watch the news, Eating, eating all my food As I sit watching the red spot In the egg which looks like All the blood you don't see on the television.
Still body now, no movement yet Five men lie die flat on their backs Were they born to lie in state Defend the ever stagnate great?
Down on the street assassinate All of them look so desperate Declared blood war on the bourgeois state
Watch new blood on the 18 inch screen The corpse is a new personality Ionic charge gives immortality The corpse is a new personality
Down on the street assassinate All of them look so desperate Declared blood war on the bourgeois state
Watch new blood on the 18 inch screen The corpse is a new personality Watch new blood on the 18 inch screen The corpse is a new personality ...
Guerilla war struggle is a new entertainment Guerilla war struggle is a new entertainment ...
Down on the street assassinate All of them look so desperate Declared blood war on the bourgeois state
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