4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images

[cal04]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html?hp

The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.

Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.

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“It is absolutely censorship,” Mr. Miller said. “I took pictures of something they didn’t like, and they removed me. Deciding what I can and cannot document, I don’t see a clearer definition of censorship.”

[grilled onions]

1. Viet Nam Was Part Of Dinner Every Night

Those that couldn't stomach it turned the channel. Those who wanted to know more was able to find it. The war was not a secret nor were the bodies of the troops that came home. People saw it all. Children understood that war was not all flag waving. War is violent and people die. Kids got an education if they watched the news back then.
Today we have a secret war. All the "bad parts" are not shown,not discussed. They tell us what we need to know(so they think)and we shouldn't question their form of sensorship.

[Mnemosyne]

2. "More than 4000" - 4124 dead troops, official count today, but what's another 124 dead

anyway?

Good luck to Zoriah Miller! May his story spread far and wide; and may he be joined by even louder voices.

KnR for Truth.

Thanks cal, good measure of how far the fascist censorship has spread.

[w8liftinglady]

3. which is why so many are trying to blow their brains out

no one is accepting their reality.
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/07/25/opinion/doc488a24e13042b833358911.txt