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

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BAGHDAD — 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.

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

[w8liftinglady]

1. That has been one of my complaints ALL this time...

We are sacrifycing nothing,according to the msm

[Muttocracy]

2. if anyone does want to see the pictures (graphic of course)

the non-printer link is
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html

[TahitiNut]

3. "forbidden to work"?? By whom? The U.S. military? In a sovereign country?

Fascinating. The Grey Lady persists in 'catapulting the propaganda' about a supposed "war" and "Iraqi sovereignty" but the picture is one of a foreign occupation with a Vichy government ... very much like German-occupied France.

When a military occupation bombs and shells civilians instead of ensuring their safety and security, it's called a war crime. In many ways, the Nazis were more civilized occupiers of France.

[Breeze54]

4. "4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths,"..... The other 124 just don't matter?!

:shrug:

:cry:

U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4124
Confirmed Deaths: 4124
Pending Confirmation: 0
DoD Confirmation List

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[uppityperson]

5. k&r for more pictures so more people can see reality. eom

[ismnotwasm]

6. War as a concept

Doesn't hit hard enough. Too much rockets red glare bullshit and not enough reality. All wars. Graphic is necessary for reality to hit I think.


I was taking care of a dying patient, who told me about a dream he had. In his dream, he was laying in his casket at his own funeral with this music in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx6dxrhqPZY

Ashokan Farewell. I didn't know the music, and I didn't know it was about the civil war, although the artist wrote it after a different personal experience. The young faces in the video, while not graphic by today's standards are compelling. We haven't learned much since then.

The patient was so moved by the song, they told me I wouldn't be able to hear it without being moved to tears. Well I would have, except for two things; one, they sadness he was trying to express about the end of his life. Two, it's really a war lament.