WH: you'll never see photos of the human cost of war in Iraq.

Hiding War's Toll
by Nancy Lessin and Gordon Clark
      If the White House has its way, you'll never see photos of the human cost of war in Iraq.

http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10071

President Bush's rationale for taking us to war in Iraq has crumbled. The truth about supposed Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is being told. At the same time, another truth remains hidden by the Bush administration: the 550 troops who have returned from Iraq in caskets and the thousands returning with severe physical and psychological damage.
The military planes carrying human remains fly into Dover Air Force Base in Delaware under cover of darkness. Unlike Vietnam, when Americans could see the consequences of war, the media are now banned from Dover Air Force Base by military order, reinforced for the Iraq war by an edict from Mr. Bush.

One does not need to be a historian to know that the image of dead Americans, returning day after day in body bags, helped turn America against the war in Vietnam. This administration has gone to great lengths to prevent a repeat by keeping images of lifeless and broken bodies away from the cameras and the consciousness of the American people. Mr. Bush has not yet attended a single funeral for anyone killed in Iraq—not a single one. Spain and Italy held state funerals for their countrymen who died in Iraq, but the Bush administration's policy for our own war dead is to hide them.

The media blackout extends to the legions of wounded who have returned from Iraq as well. Media stories on wounded troops often use Pentagon figures for those officially wounded in combat, numbering around 3,000. These numbers ignore the well over 7,000 troops who have been injured or made ill as a result of the war. According to the Disabled American Veterans, an additional 6,891 troops were medically evacuated between March 19, 2003 and Oct. 30, 2003, for everything from vehicle accidents to attempted suicides.
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(god I despise these people!)

Bush "has gone so far as to restrict access of professionally trained and accredited representatives of Disabled American Veterans from military hospitals—access that the DAV has had for more than six decades.."

:mad:

Here is a great site if you want info on what is really happening, the last two links are some of the stories from the same site.

Our Mission:
Veterans for Common Sense seeks to inject the element of Common Sense into debates over war and national security. In an age when the majority of public servants have never served in uniform, the perspective of war veterans must play a key role in the public debate over national security issues in order to preserve the liberty veterans have fought and died preserving.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/

Soldier Denied Health Care After Speaking with Journalist
Mark Benjamin
United Press International
http://www.upi.com
Posted 3/3/2004

Summary: Congress, veterans groups, and the press should immediately launch a full investigation into this Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran's allegation he suffered retaliation from the military for speaking with reporters about substandard military healthcare. A series of three UPI articles about this major scandal are posted here. They describe the "squalor" more than 1,000 wounded, ill, or injured service members were forced to endure while on "medical hold."
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1583

Suicide in Uniform: The Invisible Injury
Dick Gordon
National Public Radio - Boston
http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/02/20040225_a_main.asp
Posted 2/26/2004 7:44:00 PM

This radio interview about the high number of soldier suicides in Iraq features Steve Robinson, Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center; Captain Jennifer Berg, Chair of Psychiatry at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego; Wayne Smith, advisor to the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation; Rena Mathis, mother of Sargeant Joseph Suell, a serviceman who died of a self-inflicted drug overdose in Iraq.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1565

an excellent resource.

I remember the soldier talking about the horrendous conditions of the barracks they where being housed in, but didn't know he was later retaliated against. I'm not surprised though.

also see: www.bringthemhomenow.org
www.mfso.org

:toast:

Maybe Mel would like to do a documentary this time? The Iraqi children amputees, the GIs, fictionalize some fatality footage we are never allowed to see.

Of course we wouldn't want our children to see real children destroyed through their parents' tax money.

We paid for the lash, the nails, the cross- the whole enchilada.

I cant understand why people get so worked up over a movie, but ignore the horror we are inflicting on thousands of people in real life, and the horror we are inflicting on our soldiers and the civilians in Iraq. Makes me detest most of the human race for being so blind.
Put these pictures up next to the Passion posters in town. Let people know George W Bush and his asshole administration did this.

http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm

I agree with all you have said, here's a couple of similar sites from my own archives:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/gulfwar2/civilians.htm

http://www.einswine.com/atrocities/iraq/?page=1

are very young children. Too bad they are not American fetuses, then this would be a crime.