Ok - the caskets were from the Space Shuttle....It's Official!!!

[hexola]

The media has ZERO credibility when it comes to news, reporting and fact checking...

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Huh?

What kind of bullshit are they "reporting" now?

[Loonman]

2. Disinformation

Well that explains one photo, kind of, but the rest?


Is NASA on the Bush Lie Train, too?

[billyf65]

3. Funny...

...saw that on Drudge.

It's odd, though. I did not see an Israeli flag among them. It would stand to reason they would drape the Israeli Astronaut/war hero in the flag of his nation...

[Walt Starr]

6. Plus, there were too many coffins for it to be the Shuttle astronauts!

What a fucking liar Drudge is!

[Mistress Quickly]

13. Over on Jeeper Creeper

they are having a field day, but they miss the point: not all of them are NASA coffin photos, only some of them.

The FOIA filed specified dates from February 1, 2003 to current, and so they did a dump on the guy (whoever did the FOIA) and it included the Columbia victims.

[Norbert]

30. The one in the interior of the plane could not be of the Columbia

astronauts mixed in with the war casualties. The Columbia tragedy was in early Feb. 2003. We were not at war with Iraq then plus we were not suffering these kind of casualties in Afghanistan.

Drudge is a friggin hack journalist.

[sablescort]

19. good eye billy!

Im inclined to agree that the Bushit administration went into panic mode and got NASA to lie about the photos.

[tkmorris]

4. Got link? <nt>

[hexola]

5. Breaking at Drudge

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[Katarina]

7. Here's the link

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Drudge is a fucktard. Nuff said.

[Hokie]

17. Shouldn't that be...

Fuckturd? Of course, he is both.

[ET Awful]

8. Let us just for a second pretend that this is true. . . .

Would that not be the fault of the Air Force for supplying those photos in response to an FOIA request for photos of war casualties?

[WoodrowFan]

9. link

Here's the NASA link

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/apr/HQ_n04059_columbia_dover.html


Humm, weren't these the photos that were released via the FOIA? Pretty stupid screwup if true.

[Katarina]

11. If it is true

it is a stupid screwup. It's no fault of thememoryhole as far as I am concerned. Matt Drudge has to make a big issue of things like this though. I'm surprised he doesn't have his little siren going on it. I would like to tell him where to put his siren. He acts like nothing more than an ambulance chaser.

[WoodrowFan]

18. shows how carefully they do FOIA doesn't it. (NT)

[kiahzero]

20. Weren't there more than 7 caskets?

I seem to recall there being many, many more.

[WoodrowFan]

23. depends on the photos

some photos showed MORE, some a few. Of course by focusing on whatever photos were included by mistake from NASA, the RW hopes the public will think they are ALL fake.


Here's one of the photos we KNOW is real, more than 7 caskets...



There's at least 16 there.

[dr.strangelove]

10. I HATE DRUDGE

Man I hate it when that bastard is right. Wait, he's always "right."

[fryguy]

12. Drudge is a douchbag

Just had to get that off my chest....

[bobbyboucher]

14. How can they tell the difference?

Can anyone verify this, all I get at the memoryhole is a no-connect message when I click the link.

[Grown2Hate]

15. Again, assume it's true...

...so that means there are NO casualties from the Iraq or Afghanistan war? "Oh, those aren't pictures of the WAR dead, so that must mean there's nothing to see here!" Who cares if there are pictures or NOT?! There are a TON dead from this war, and that's bad enough. Stupid bastards misleading everyone away from the REAL POINT... ::sighs::

[bobbyboucher]

16. Exactly, plus, which is which and

how do they know?

[Akbar]

22. My Take on What This Means

They're implying that the war dead are not returning in flag-draped caskets. Perhaps they're being returned piled up in shipping crates. Maybe they're just being dumped somewhere in Iraq. I think the repubs have made it very clear that the American dead are not being returned in flag-draped coffins.

[LoZoccolo]

21. OK...but so?

It doesn't really say anything about the real story - photos of war coffins were not being allowed. Some of the Memory Hole photos were still of war coffins. Typical Drudge distraction from the real issue.

[robbedvoter]

24. Space shutle? Coffins of what exactly?

Didn't the whole thing blow up over half of the US?

[sablescort]

25. actually pieces of the shuttle was

scattered mostly all over Texas and Louisiana...

[robbedvoter]

26. And they ended in coffins how?

[sablescort]

27. good question.

I'm fighting the freepers on the same thing....Should I post the Tami Silico photo/Seattle Times link?

Then there are some problems that are troubling me: If it was the NASA coffin pics, there are some pics that show the coffins being loaded in hearses and some in a military ambulance. Then one thing: how in the hell did NASA and Air Force manage to mix the photos in the CD?

Didn't anyone go over to Dover during the Columbia disaster? Perhaps the media ban did not apply to NASA?

*putting on my tinfoil hat*

[LastDemocratInSC]

29. The remains of the Columbia astronauts were sent to Dover

The remains of all 7 astronauts were found in the same general area near Hemphill, Texas, on the day following the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia. The remains were sent to Dover Air Force base.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14085

[LastDemocratInSC]

28. SOME of the pictures were of the Columbia astronauts

The vast majority of the photos were of military victims. They Columbia victim photos got mixed in somehow.