Pentagon forced to show coffin pictures
So , now, that he lawsuit is over, can anyone explain to me what purpose showing pictures of the coffins of american dead in Iraq will serve?
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 8/06/2005 11:16:00 AM
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5 Comments:
So basically they are to be used by cynical anti-war types for Propaganda purposes to get more people to be against the war?
Wow, and they are the ones who care about those who died?
jeez
Right, because only "useful" speech should be allowed.
Of course they don't care about the dead, Sam. They have been trying to bring back the Vietnam equation since the beginning. They think this helps. Think body bags. They didn't care who was in those either.
Jan
It's a holdover from the Vietnam war, they figure it worked for them once, it'll work for them again. The leftists have been trying desperately to recapture their youth and make themselves feel relevant. They figure parading photos of dead Americans will do the trick for them.
It won't work.
Showing the coffins provides some important imagery for the anti-war crowd. Because, despite the fact that most Americans feel that the war in Iraq is not going well (including me), these has been the least bloody war America has ever been involved in.
Ever heard of Tarawa? Most people haven't. It was a WWII battle that lasted 4 days, on a series of coral atolls in the pacific.
3000 US Marines killed.
Of the 4700 Japanese defenders, only 17 survived.
In FOUR DAYS.
Oh, but that wasn't guerrilla war, so it's not an appropriate comparison, right? Well, at current casulty rates, it will take another 98 years to reach the 60,000 Americans killed in Vietnam!
I don't think the war is going well. But that's because I don't think our objectives in Iraq are being met, not because the war has been extraordinarily costly.
So, yes, SM... you are exactly right :)
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