What the Propaganda Masters Don't Want You to See:

[TeeYiYi]

What the Propaganda Masters Don't Want You to See: The Truth About American Casualties in Iraq

Infowars.com
April 22, 2004

The propaganda masters at the pentagon have done everything in their power to prevent real information and images of American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan from surfacing.

The Washington post Reports:

"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.

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."

So much for a free press -- as if it weren't in complete control of the Pentagon's propaganda masters anyhow.


More: http://www.infowars.com/print/iraq/casualty_photos.htm

TYY

Mods: I know there is another coffin thread but I posted this one because it is a different story. And I wanted to make the images available to everyone. TheMemoryHole.org seems to be unavailable.

[arcane1]

1. how dare you dishonor the troops by honoring their sacrifice!

/irrational freeper mode off

[Skittles]

4. at work someone told me that these pictures "disrespect the fallen"

I kid you not. And this person spent 21 years in the Army.

[arcane1]

5. oh right, it's SO much more respectful to:

ignore them, mis-count them, deny them, hide them, call them 'transfer tubes' so people think they are just cargo, and don't even get me started on veteran's cuts

your coworker is an ignorant asshole :grr:

[mbperrin]

2. I want the names of every casualty tattooed on the bodies

of the pResident and the Veep so that they can permanently remember those whom they have killed.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Does anyone know where that top pic is from?

The reason I am asking is that March AFB is right across the street from Arlington Cemetary in Riverside CA where my father is buried..the other day when I drove past, I noticed a large wall up by the cemetary where new graves are going in and thought that was odd.

That pic looks like it was taken at March AFB looking westward towards the cemetary.

I will probably drive out this weekend and check out the new grave area...Arlington is one of the few veterans cemetaries left in California that has room for graves other than cremation.

[buddy22600]

6. bastids

[fryguy]

7. I count 4 more photographers who will be fired

n/t

[underpants]

8. Geesh that second photo

A whole plane load of them lined up. I got a shiver up my spine.

It is not disrespectful to show them it is disrespectful to not pay tribute to them.

[SEpatriot]

9. The ultimate disrespect is hiding them!

Death is a reality of combat and a reminder that combat is and should always be the last resort. These men and women did their jobs as their country required and now they are being hidden from the public as a crass, political ploy. They're hiding the wounded too. I just can't say enough about how degrading this whole thing is to the country.

[buddy22600]

10. make the prez bury them himself

[Tracer]

11. Disrespectful??!!

If you look at those photos, you'll see the servicemen so carefully smoothing out any wrinkles, and tenderly checking the folds.

It made me cry.

[Tellurian]

12. dupe

go here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1455693