Leave the troops who have been killed alone, they have done enough.

From a follow soldier, Ahman.

sorry i may have misunderstood you to be saying there was a presidential moratorium (altho in a way i guess that's true since the pentagon's moratorium on photographs at dover was started by the first president bush).

incidentally, here's barbara bush's response when asked if she hadda problem with the restriction on photos of caskets bearing the remains of those killed in action:

"Why should we hear about body bags and death and how many? ... Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

Actually, according to the Socialist Worker, Sheehan said: “He planned a five-week vacation while we’re in the middle of war, and I’m never going to be able to enjoy another vacation because he killed my only son. If he doesn’t come out and talk to me in Crawford, I’ll follow him to D.C. and camp out on his lawn there until he finds the integrity to talk to someone whose life he has ruined. “Casey was murdered by Bush and his insane, arrogant, callous foreign policy. What did my son die for? Last week, Bush said my son died in a noble cause. And I want to ask him what that noble cause is."

Thank you very much baker!

Still didn't find anything even close to Cindy saying dubya was a "murderer". Miler. Swing and a miss....Strike three. You Mod and Guy all took a crack at it.

Now who's the swing and miss? Looks like you just got shut down by baker.

sorry i may have misunderstood you to be saying there was a presidential moratorium (altho in a way i guess that's true since the pentagon's moratorium on photographs at dover was started by the first president bush).

Wrong again.


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.


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."