Still No Photos Permitted of Iraq Caskets -- But Why?

Question

Since 2003 when the current Iraq war began. The Bush administration has restricted the press from photographing caskets of the military deceased.

This wasn't a practice in the Vietnam War, and it contributed to the peoples revolution against the Vietnam War in a propaganda sense.

If just one or two caskets are coming back, every so often like the pentagon says, why is it such a problem to take these photographs, which hitherto, has always been the right of the American media, dating back to the Civil War era. They even photographed mangled corpses during that war.

The untold truth of all of this is, is that more troops and contractors are dying than the pentagon is releasing. This happened in the Vietnam War when Nixon and Johnson lied about the true number of troop deaths. They are only reporting 'in theatre' deaths to marginize the true human cost.

Please comment on this matter, and please throuroughly read the question and answer seriously.

Thank You

Answer 1

The gov doesn't want the public to know that people are dying in the war@

Answer 2

The U.S. government has embroiled America in an apauling disaster and support for the Iraq debacle is plummeting in the U.S.  The only way out for America is a change of administration. If GWB pulled out troops it would be an admission of outright failure. So the last thing GWB needs is to have the price being paid for his continued tenure plastered all over the media. I suspect GWB would happily see ten million Americans die pointlessly in Iraq rather than step down from office a day early.

Answer 3

Sausage and freedom - I don't want to see how either are made, and I don't want them on the news swaying the minds of the sheeple.

Answer 4

The Reason for it is the military and family have had problems with people destroying funnels for soldiers when there body are returned home. Also by UCMJ Says that the family is the first to see and Claim the body as a sign as respect.  As Soldier and a combat vet i agree with the choice. You can go out side of just about every military post and see protester out side which is there right.  But in the Vietnam War and Civil War people had respect for the dead and did not try to Destroys family during a time of grieving