A sanitized picture of war?

[babylonsister]

A sanitized picture of war?
Posted July 26, 2008 2:22 PM
The Swamp

by Aamer Madhani



Last month, independent photojournalist Zoriah Miller was on a foot patrol with a Marine unit in a small town near the western city of Fallujah, when a call came over the radio about a bomb blast.

Miller and the Marine unit he was embedded with rushed to the scene to find utter chaos of a suicide bombing that took the lives of three marines and at least 20 Iraqis.

"Several dozen people lost their lives... children, old men, civilians, police, and military men," Miller wrote in an entry on his blog four days after the June 26 blast in Garma. "The scene was horrific beyond words, even for someone like me who has a fairly high threshold for such things. I found it nearly impossible to look through the viewfinder."

In that blog entry, Miller also posted a series of photographs that leaves no doubts about the cruelty of war--one is of a dead an elderly man slumped over in a garden chair, another of dismembered hand-- and the most provocative of his shots-- two black-and-white images of the dead marines.

Miller was asked by the Marines to remove the photographs soon after posting them, but he refused because he felt his publishing of the images didn't break any of the ground rules set by the U.S. military. The dead marines were unidentifiable, and he waited more than three days before posting the photographs, which gave the unit plenty of time to notify the next-of-kin of the fallen troops.

The Marine didn't see it that way and kicked him out of his embed. Now, Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is seeking to have Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world, the New York Times reports today.

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http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/a_sanitized_picture_of_war.html#more

[NNN0LHI]

1. That link no longer works try this one

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/26/africa/embed.php

[babylonsister]

3. Thanks, but I just tried it; worked for me.

:shrug:

[NNN0LHI]

5. It works for me now too

I actually went to Google and tried clicking on the Swamp link there and it didn't kick. Twice. Might have been a temporary glitch?

Gremlins maybe?

Don

[TexasObserver]

2. It's part of the Bush plan to keep America from seeing what he has wrought.

And MSM is complicit.

[Arctic Dave]

4. No intimidation here.

Report only what they you to report or else you can never set foot on a miliatry facility again.
Whatever happened to freedom of the press. Isn't this one of the freedoms this asshole is suppose to be "defending".