There Is No War, There Are No Dead Americans
John Rappoport | April 23 2004
The photos of flag-draped coffins of dead US soldiers were obtained,
for the most part, through FOIA requests.
The Pentagon claims it made a mistake in releasing them, and no more
will be given out.
I see. The Pentagon controls these photos. Property of US gov.
Citizens must not see them.
Must not see the closed coffins.
The "debate" on the news centers around whether the families of the
dead GIs are being unnecessarily traumatized by the photos.
How about a gov-ordered blackout on all news that mentions US
casualties?
Or a blackout on any news about the war?
There is no war. There never was. Stories about war are a heinous
terrorist plot.
Two civilian employees of a defense contractor were fired after
sending a photo of draped coffins to a US newspaper.
Wow.
There is no war. There never was. No deaths.
To put it another way, the Pentagon approves of death reports IN THE
ABSTRACT. The abstract is permitted. It is allowed---stats are
allowed. That is all. The Pentagon rules.
What the hell has happened to this country?
It has been so mauled and pummeled by grief counselors and
touchy-feely routines and fake concern for those who mourn that a
photo of a casket with a flag draped over it "might make a mother
wonder if that is her son inside."
Yeah, well that mother is surely wondering about a lot of things,
including the fact that Iraq has become the kind of swamp that
thousands of people predicted.
Given the level of outrage that is fuming among many families of dead
US soldiers, perhaps the Pentagon should avoid any pictures of Don
Rumsfeld. Might exacerbate the anger. Anger is unhealthy. Anger needs
to be treated.
Let's appoint a film task force to review ALL old war movies and
excise frames that show coffins.
Let's put a movie like Gardens of Stone on a list and censor it
completely.
Ditto for the old Kubrick masterpiece, Paths of Glory.
Ditto for Apocalypse Now.
Ditto for Patton.
And body bags? WE'LL HAVE NONE OF THAT.
Too many people might flash back to Vietnam, and the fact that, inside
some of those bags, there was heroin pushed up inside the body
cavities of dead GIs.
I happen to know a guy who was there. He saw the helicopter land and
the Americans in suits get out. He saw the heroin loaded into the
bodies and the bodies put into the bags. One guy in a suit came up to
him and said, "This never happened. Remember that. Never happened."
We have to protect the American people from images of coffins. They
might get the wrong idea that the war is not worth fighting.
Instead, let's see images of a whole lot of Mickey Mouses flying back
from the Middle East on those transport planes. A lot of Mickeys
eating big macs and listening to music on headphones and playing video
games and reading comic books and looking at pictures of Britney. Soft
rock with a drum machine in the background.
There's a reason you have seen NO pictures of soldiers who have come
back to the US with injuries. You know, a GI standing outside his
apartment building in Omaha with a missing leg.
Didn't happen. There was no war. There was only Mickey giving the gift
of democracy to the Iraqi people.
I keep seeing images of a preacher in a large church. He's doing his
sermon: "Oh, praise the abstraction. Get down on your knees and pray
for abstraction. Abstraction is all. Surrender to abstraction. Love
abstraction."
Teach, baby, teach. Tell it.
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| Title: Re: There is no war, there are no dead Americans |
24 Apr 2004 10:43:37 AM |
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In article <5qgk80132v952kqrm79g19knqa7rbbcqq0@4ax.com>, wrote:
There Is No War, There Are No Dead Americans
John Rappoport | April 23 2004
The photos of flag-draped coffins of dead US soldiers were obtained,
for the most part, through FOIA requests.
The Pentagon claims it made a mistake in releasing them, and no more
will be given out.
I see. The Pentagon controls these photos. Property of US gov.
Citizens must not see them.
Must not see the closed coffins.
The "debate" on the news centers around whether the families of the
dead GIs are being unnecessarily traumatized by the photos.
How about a gov-ordered blackout on all news that mentions US
casualties?
Or a blackout on any news about the war?
We have a free press. If our media doesn't get their stories from the
government, they'll get the war stories from places like Al Jazeera and the
like. (The govt can shut down all broadcasting, but not newspapers).
In any case, Bush had better watch his step carefully on his attempts to control
the media - because they WILL get stories, and it's in Bush's best interest to
make sure they come from sources more sympathetic to "our" side.
Woods
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