rare2findd
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...arms severed? torsos cut in half? Sept 4, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.
The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.
Gates wrote to Thomas Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer. “Out of respect for his family’s wishes, I ask you in the strongest of terms to reconsider your decision. I do not make this request lightly. In one of my first public statements as Secretary of Defense, I stated that the media should not be treated as the enemy, and made it a point to thank journalists for revealing problems that need to be fixed – as was the case with Walter Reed. …
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or was it okay for the babies because there was no one to speak for them?
Do you
really
want to see some photos?
Do you?
or are you afraid to see them because you are so accustomed to 'sanitized' covered bodies.
Google:
"Images - dead Iraqi babies"
Do so
If
you
date'
(and these photographs were taken of bodies rendered Dead as a result of bush unwinnable, illegal, heartless war on a people not his own on a land, not is own.
what goes around
comes around
remember that~
Like I said, the babies had no one to speak for them. I have volumes of history books from both WWI and WW2. All of them are full of photos of dead US soldiers and the dead bodies of whomever was the enemy at that time. Some show faces ~~ recognizeable.
This isnt propoganda.
It is reality and underscores the horrors of war and conflict. I will of course, exclude the family. But Gates does ot care about our soldfiers. At all. He is a war machine. A dead soldier is merely ne of the spoils.
Perhaps one day all mankind will come to realize that because wars always were, does not mean that they should always be.
I'm young, college educated, well traveled, etc. You oldsters deplore violence. Yet when someone deplores useless wars, you find such wars totally acceptable. Please don't give that utter nonsense about my"freedom" because of those wars. Because you see there is always another way to solve conflicts.
Besides killing innocents.
Enough said.
Most of these images were taken during the first part of the was (2003). They were publicized, not on US television but on many many sites here on line.
Open your eyes.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.
The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.
Gates wrote to Thomas Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer. “Out of respect for his family’s wishes, I ask you in the strongest of terms to reconsider your decision. I do not make this request lightly. In one of my first public statements as Secretary of Defense, I stated that the media should not be treated as the enemy, and made it a point to thank journalists for revealing problems that need to be fixed – as was the case with Walter Reed. …
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
or was it okay for the babies because there was no one to speak for them?
Do you
really
want to see some photos?
Do you?
or are you afraid to see them because you are so accustomed to 'sanitized' covered bodies.
Google:
"Images - dead Iraqi babies"
Do so
If
you
date'
(and these photographs were taken of bodies rendered Dead as a result of bush unwinnable, illegal, heartless war on a people not his own on a land, not is own.
what goes around
comes around
remember that~
Like I said, the babies had no one to speak for them. I have volumes of history books from both WWI and WW2. All of them are full of photos of dead US soldiers and the dead bodies of whomever was the enemy at that time. Some show faces ~~ recognizeable.
This isnt propoganda.
It is reality and underscores the horrors of war and conflict. I will of course, exclude the family. But Gates does ot care about our soldfiers. At all. He is a war machine. A dead soldier is merely ne of the spoils.
Perhaps one day all mankind will come to realize that because wars always were, does not mean that they should always be.
I'm young, college educated, well traveled, etc. You oldsters deplore violence. Yet when someone deplores useless wars, you find such wars totally acceptable. Please don't give that utter nonsense about my"freedom" because of those wars. Because you see there is always another way to solve conflicts.
Besides killing innocents.
Enough said.
Most of these images were taken during the first part of the was (2003). They were publicized, not on US television but on many many sites here on line.
Open your eyes.