President George W. Bush is gone, and so is the press covering the dead returning home from combat:
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President Bush of trying to hide the terrible human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“These young men and women are heroes,” Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. “The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong.”
In April of this year, the Obama administration lifted the press ban, which had been in place since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Media outlets rushed to cover the first arrival of a fallen U.S. serviceman, and many photographers came back for the second arrival, and then the third.
But after that, the impassioned advocates of showing the true human cost of war grew tired of the story. Fewer and fewer photographers showed up. “It’s really fallen off,” says Lt. Joe Winter, spokesman for the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where all war dead are received. “The flurry of interest has subsided.”
That’s an understatement…..when caskets arrived on Sept. 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 23 and 26. There has been no television coverage at all in September.
Gee, it wasn’t about the troops or the truth after all. And it certainly wasn’t about reporting the reality of the human cost of war….. more U.S. troops have died under Obama’s watch in Afghanistan than any other year under President Bush.
Of course this was never about the troops or about the truth. First, the liberals, or shall we call them progressives, have been unable to tell the truth since Teddy Roosevelt. They have looking to subvert our country and our constitution any way possible. They have been aided by presidents like the two Roosevelts, Hoover, Kennedy, Ford, Nixion, the Bushes and now Obama. They and their kind are the thieves of liberty as long as they keep theirs.
ReplyDeleteRemember, we, the military of the United States and our allies, won the war in Vietnam. It was the liberals, the politicians who lost the war. I have never felt sorry that I served during that time, regardless of how many people tole me that it was an immoral war. It ended up that way because of the politicians. It will end up that way in Iraq and Afghanistan because the politicians have not and will not allow the military leaders to do their jobs of killing people and breaking things.
The progressives along with the present administration are responsible for the deaths of a million babies a year. They do not give a damn about children which is evident in the Saft School Czar who is probably a pedophile. They expect you to pay more and more in taxes while a tax cheat runs the IRS. The eugenics czar would just as soon see you, the baby-boomers die as soon as possible by rationing healthcare with a piece of crap they call healthcare reform.
And the list goes on.
Just when are they going to start issuing LIBERAL tags with our hunting licenses?