This is a picture of the coffins coming back from Vietnam after the Vietnam War, we don't see that now during the Iraq War,
In fact, we don't even know how many American soldiers have fallen in this war.
"Throughout the Iraq War, Media have rarely shown images of US battlefield casualties, almost never with visible pain or blood. Such restraint provides tacit support for the war" This is so true because all they do is show that war is good, which ties in the 1984 war posters "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" because since they censor the truth it shows to the people back home that "War is Peace" because it shows soldiers in no visible pain or blood, so it's making Americans think "War is Peace".
The second thing that spoke to me in the article was that "The washington post recently discovered new photos of Iraqi citizens killed by US troops in Haditha among thousands of pages of Naval Criminal Investigative Service documents. The paper chose not to publish the pictures. Post editors decided that most of the images are to graphic to publish." this bothers me because the press isn't afraid to show dead children in Iraq, but are to afraid to show some Iraqi citizens killed by us. How bogus is that? It says to me that we are cowards. We'd prefer to run away, than face the truth.
The last thing that hit me the most was this "The media does not offer a true portrayal of the consequences of war. Showing blood on the floor, the fallen soldier, was too much for the military." This reinstates what I said above. We are cowards, we want to shut our eyes to the harsh reality of War, we want to pretend we are not at war, and we are at peace. We ARE cowards, we need to OPEN our eyes to reality, but we've been raised to believe everything is right with the world, and there is no such thing as war or death, or pain. We know nothing.
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