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<blockquote> Thus Spake God's Creator</blockquote>
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Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have
worried that their
 military actions would lose support once the
public glimpsed the
 remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases
in flag-draped caskets.
  
          
" To this problem, the Bush administration has found
            
a simple solution: It has ended the public
            
dissemination of such images by banning news
            
coverage and photography of dead soldiers'
            
homecomings on all military bases.
           
In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive
            
arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases.
            
"There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media
            
coverage of, deceased military personnel returning
            
to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase
            
or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops," the
            
Defense Department said, referring to the major
            
ports for the returning remains.
           
A Pentagon spokeswoman said the military-wide
            
policy actually dates from about November 2000 --
            
the last days of the Clinton administration -- but it
            
apparently went unheeded and unenforced, as
            
images of caskets returning from the Afghanistan
            
war appeared on television broadcasts and in
            
newspapers until early this year. Though Dover Air
            
Force Base, which has the military's largest
            
mortuary, has had restrictions for 12 years, others
            
"may not have been familiar with the policy," the
            
spokeswoman said. This year, "we've really tried to
            
enforce it."
  
 President Bush's opponents say he is trying
to keep
  the spotlight off the fatalities in Iraq.
"This
  administration manipulates information
and takes
  great care to manage events, and sometimes
that
 goes too far," said Joe Lockhart, who as White
 House press secretary joined President Bill Clinton
at several
 ceremonies for returning remains. "For them to
sit there and make a
 political decision because this hurts them politically
-- I'm outraged."
Pentagon officials deny that. Speaking on condition
of anonymity,
 they said the policy covering the entire military
followed a victory
 over a civil liberties court challenge to the
restrictions at Dover and
 relieves all bases of the difficult logistics
of assembling family
 members and deciding which troops should get
which types of
 ceremonies.
One official said only individual graveside services,
open to cameras
 at the discretion of relatives, give "the full
context" of a soldier's
 sacrifice. "To do it at several stops along the
way doesn't tell the full
 story and isn't representative," the official
said.
A White House spokesman said Bush has not attended
any
 memorials or funerals for soldiers killed in
action during his
 presidency as his predecessors had done, although
he has met with
 families of fallen soldiers and has marked the
loss of soldiers in
 Memorial Day and Sept. 11, 2001, remembrances.
The Pentagon has previously acknowledged the effect
on public
 opinion of the grim tableau of caskets being
carried from transport
 planes to hangars or hearses. In 1999, the then-chairman
of the Joint
 Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton,
said a decision to use
 military force is based in part on whether it
will pass "the Dover test,"
 .as the public reacts to fatalities.
Ceremonies for arriving coffins, not routine during
the Vietnam War,
 became increasingly common and elaborate later.
After U.S. soldiers
 fell in Beirut, Grenada, Panama, the Balkans,
Kenya, Afghanistan and
 elsewhere, the military often invited in cameras
for elaborate
 ceremonies for the returning remains, at Andrews
Air Force Base,
 Dover, Ramstein and elsewhere -- sometimes with
the president
 attending.
President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies for
troops killed in
 Pakistan, Egypt and the failed hostage rescue
mission in Iran.
 President Ronald Reagan participated in many
memorable
 ceremonies, including a service at Camp Lejeune
in 1983 for 241
 Marines killed in Beirut. Among several events
at military bases, he
 went to Andrews in 1985 to pin Purple Hearts
to the caskets of
 marines killed in San Salvador, and, at Mayport
Naval Station in
 Florida in 1987, he eulogized those killed aboard
the USS Stark in the
 Persian Gulf.
During President George H.W. Bush's term, there
were ceremonies at
 Dover and Andrews for Americans killed in Panama,
Lebanon and
 aboard the USS Iowa.
But in early 1991, at the time of the Persian
Gulf War, the Pentagon
 said there would be no more media coverage of
coffins returning to
 Dover, the main arrival point; a year earlier,
Bush was angered when
 television networks showed him giving a news
briefing on a split
 screen with caskets arriving.
But the photos of coffins arriving at Andrews
and elsewhere
 continued to appear through the Clinton administration.
In 1996,
 Dover made an exception to allow filming of Clinton's
visit to
 welcome the 33 caskets with remains from Commerce
Secretary
 Ronald H. Brown's plane crash. In 1998, Clinton
went to Andrews to
 see the coffins of Americans killed in the terrorist
bombing in
 Nairobi. Dover also allowed public distribution
of photos of the
 homecoming caskets after the terrorist attack
on the USS Cole in
 2000.
The photos of coffins continued for the first
two years of the current
 Bush administration, from Ramstein and other
bases. Then, on the
 eve of the Iraq invasion, word came from the
Pentagon that other
 bases were to adopt Dover's policy of making
the arrival ceremonies
 off limits.
"Whenever we go into a conflict, there's a certain
amount of guidance
 that comes down the pike," said Lt. Olivia Nelson,
a spokeswoman for
 Dover. "It's a consistent policy across the board.
Where it used to
 apply only to Dover, they've now made it very
clear it applies to
 everyone."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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~~  GOD'S  CREATOR ~~
   Wise men stare at the unknown,
and boldly asks, WHY?
    Others... fall on their hands
and knees, and start mumbling...
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  Today's
Terrorists News:
   <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/">http://www.antiwar.com/</a>
  Today's
U.S. Terrorists:
   <a href="http://www.dbr.nu/noin/rogues.html">http://www.dbr.nu/noin/rogues.html</a>
  
  
  
  
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