It's real respectful of Bush to run pictures of soldiers in his campaign ads. I agree with Larry, to say that you can't take pictures of coffins out of respect is the height of hypocrisy and the fact that anyone takes this seriously illustrates the extent to whch doublethink permeates our society.

Dana

>The fact that the government is making such a hullabaloo about pitcures of
>flag draped coffins, and news stations reading the names of the deceased
>soldiers coming under fire.
>
>This pisses me off greatly. These people made the ultimate sacrifice, and
>for what? To be hidden and come back home to nothing but a funeral with
>their families? I am so ashamed that we would treat those fallen hero's with
>anything but the reverent respect they deserve.
>
>Perhaps in the deluded mind of Bush and his peeps, he feels that by not
>showing their coffins or really saying anything about them, that that is
>reverent respect; but in reality it is just hiding the truth of the cost of
>war from the american people to keep our support up for it.
>
>It also doesnt matter to me whether this has been a policy of other
>administrations in the past. The fact is that the people who voluteered to
>"step up" and man the lines of whatever conflict the career politicians feel
>necessary to involve us in should be treated at a level of respect far above
>what the cronies in DC get regularly from most people.
>
>2 cents out.
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