sport the war
war ensemble
sport the war, war support
the sport is war, total war
when victory's a massacre
the final swing is not a drill
it's how many people I can kill
what do you think?
The Dept. of Defense is not allowing media to show images of incoming caskets at Dover Airforce Base from Iraq, casualites of war, images of the caskets draped in an American flag.
I heard this on Democracy Now! this morning, about how the NYTimes and several other papers nationwide have published a photo of the caskets (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/national/23PHOT.html), but it turns out that they have published it because of the following website...I actually just came across the site myself, done by someone who claims he filed an FOIA (Freedom of Info Act) request after hearing about the DoD ruling.
Either of these two links will take you to the blogger site containing those photos, The Memory Hole. There are a ton of photos, so be warned if you've got a slow connection. (http://warblogging.com/mirrors/www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/) (http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/)
Old Washington Post article about the DoD policy, it's dated October 2003..(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55816-2003Oct20¬Found=true)
I've heard again and again that one thing that ended the Vietnam War was all of the visual footage of the dead, all of the horror of what was happening overseas. These images really changed public opinion. In this time of 'collateral damages' where even that term is adopted by the media and further distances us from the scenario, it is just such a shame that the only lessons our administration has learned from history and from the Vietnam war is to NOT show those visual images.
sport the war, war support
the sport is war, total war
when victory's a massacre
the final swing is not a drill
it's how many people I can kill
what do you think?
The Dept. of Defense is not allowing media to show images of incoming caskets at Dover Airforce Base from Iraq, casualites of war, images of the caskets draped in an American flag.
I heard this on Democracy Now! this morning, about how the NYTimes and several other papers nationwide have published a photo of the caskets (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/national/23PHOT.html), but it turns out that they have published it because of the following website...I actually just came across the site myself, done by someone who claims he filed an FOIA (Freedom of Info Act) request after hearing about the DoD ruling.
Either of these two links will take you to the blogger site containing those photos, The Memory Hole. There are a ton of photos, so be warned if you've got a slow connection. (http://warblogging.com/mirrors/www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/) (http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/)
Old Washington Post article about the DoD policy, it's dated October 2003..(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55816-2003Oct20¬Found=true)
I've heard again and again that one thing that ended the Vietnam War was all of the visual footage of the dead, all of the horror of what was happening overseas. These images really changed public opinion. In this time of 'collateral damages' where even that term is adopted by the media and further distances us from the scenario, it is just such a shame that the only lessons our administration has learned from history and from the Vietnam war is to NOT show those visual images.