On Sep 18, 2004, at 9:31 AM, kerry miller wrote:
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 18, 2004, at 8:46 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Exactly the same kinds of questions I asked myself. But on the other hand if there were some sort of concerted effort to that end, could it even be done?
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No. The care which the American military takes to protect its dead is, religious isn't the right word (obviously it's religious) but also extraordinary.
Almost as extraordinary as the care with which the American media is not permitted to show imaged of flag-draped coffins leaving military transports.
That's not really a fair response to Gautam's post; the military is amazingly respectful of their dead. If you want to be snarky about it, you might want to mention the dreadful state of the VA. :(
I wasn't trying to deny the military's respect toward its dead; I was trying to point out that, respectful of its dead or not, the fact is that we (as a nation) have very carefully not been permitted to see the results in US casualties of this misbegotten war.
What that means is that it is not beyond the bounds of conceivability that an extra few hundred coffins could well have been slipped past the blindfolded media.
I seriously doubt that a cover-up this massive could be arranged.
I agree. But I'm not as willing as Gautam appears to be to rule out the possibility entirely.
If it were true, why hasn't Al-Jazeera broken the story?
Good question. As I've said, I'd need a lot of evidence to support the claim. Contrarily I'm weighing in on the side of those who mistrust authority and virtually everything it tells us.
If one takes as read that a chief purpose of authority is to remain in authority (as I'm inclined to do), the mistrust seems more justified. I'm not paranoid but I think almost anyone can concede that the cloak of secrecy that exists over the Bush II administration is ... well, secretive, to say the least. (I didn't really trust Slick Willie either, for what it's worth.)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" Excerpt at http://www.nightwares.com/books/Flat_Out.pdf
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