Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world.
US War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded with US troops in Afghanistan, for taking and releasing a photo of a US Marine who was wounded in action and died from his injury.
The American Legion jumped in and denounced the Associated Press for a "stunning lack of compassion and common decency."
(By the way, The American Legion supported George Bush in writing to its members in his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - then, I quit the American Legion – Chimp)
To stem opposition to its wars, the War Department hides signs of American casualties from the public.
Angry that evidence escaped the censor, the War Secretary and the American Legion attacked with politically correct jargon: "insensitive," "offended," and the "anguish," "pain and suffering" inflicted upon the Marine’s family.
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3 comments:
Exactly how I felt when I first read this report. What hypocrisy. Where is the outrage when photos of dead iraqis are posted in the media? Dead knows no nationality.
As to the AL. I do not belong to any veteran's organization, simply because they are all extensions of the military. I have always found it ironic that guys who hated the military while in it, later in life revel in reliving the experience, and of course, their heroics. Total bullshit.
The Shrub made sure the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were sanitized, and wouldn't become 'living room wars' like Vietnam did.
So keep it flowing you embedded journalists..keep showing everyone the death and dying that accompanies nation building. Thanks to you, everyone might realize we are in a real, friggin war where good people die for no reason other than someone sent them thousands of miles away for no good reason.
One of the dumbest things that the MAIN STREAM MEDIA ever did was to have itself "embedded" with the fighting troops. All their reports were completely censored and they were only allowed to report "positive" news. If there wasn't any, they made it up or the Pentagon made it up for them.
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