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Is this any worse than photos of Iraqi babies with faces blown off? heads and arms severed? torsos cut in half?
Sept 4, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.
The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.
Gates wrote to Thomas Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer. “Out of respect for his family’s wishes, I ask you in the strongest of terms to reconsider your decision. I do not make this request lightly. In one of my first public statements as Secretary of Defense, I stated that the media should not be treated as the enemy, and made it a point to thank journalists for revealing problems that need to be fixed – as was the case with Walter Reed. …
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or was it okay for the babies because there was no one to speak for them?
Do you
really
want to see some photos?
Do you?
or are you afraid to see them because you are so accustomed to ‘sanitized’ covered bodies.
Google:
"Images – dead Iraqi babies"
Do so
If
you
date’
(and these photographs were taken of bodies rendered Dead as a result of bush unwinnable, illegal, heartless war on a people not his own on a land, not is own.
what goes around
comes around
remember that~
Like I said, the babies had no one to speak for them. I have volumes of history books from both WWI and WW2. All of them are full of photos of dead US soldiers and the dead bodies of whomever was the enemy at that time. Some show faces ~~ recognizeable.
This isnt propoganda.
It is reality and underscores the horrors of war and conflict. I will of course, exclude the family. But Gates does ot care about our soldfiers. At all. He is a war machine. A dead soldier is merely ne of the spoils.
Perhaps one day all mankind will come to realize that because wars always were, does not mean that they should always be.
I’m young, college educated, well traveled, etc. You oldsters deplore violence. Yet when someone deplores useless wars, you find such wars totally acceptable. Please don’t give that utter nonsense about my"freedom" because of those wars. Because you see there is always another way to solve conflicts.
Besides killing innocents.
Enough said.
Most of these images were taken during the first part of the was (2003). They were publicized, not on US television but on many many sites here on line.
Open your eyes.
oh please
these babies were alive, months old.
not aborted out of a womb.
but
yes
perhaps we should
publicize aborted babies from the US.
You know.
Images of abortions by the fastidious "moral" United States.
Please
Iraqi babies or aborted babies? Sounds like you described children that were cut up and removed from the womb in honor of a mothers choice
Anyways, I’ve not seen pics of Iraqi babies but I’m sure with a war going on there has been some horrible stuff. The Middle East is full of murder and violence. You can blame the US all you want but there was horrible violent crimes before we arrived
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September 6th, 2009
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Iraqi babies or aborted babies? Sounds like you described children that were cut up and removed from the womb in honor of a mothers choice
Anyways, I’ve not seen pics of Iraqi babies but I’m sure with a war going on there has been some horrible stuff. The Middle East is full of murder and violence. You can blame the US all you want but there was horrible violent crimes before we arrived
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It is appalling.
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Thank you for admitting that the "dead soldier" photo is pure propaganda and emotional pandering…
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The worst part is the family explicitly said NOT to publish the pics… The AP disregarding them and saying its honoring him is not acceptable…
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If the family doesn’t want the image broadcast, then journalists shouldn’t broadcast the image. It is as simple as that. It is surprising at how much of their humanity journalists are willing to dismiss for one photo. I hope the family sues them for everything in their stinking hellhole of a studio.
I’m not sure what you mean about babies…honestly, talking about babies when I have yet to see photos of them makes you sound like a moonbat…
Peace
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What about the photos of Iraqi and Afghani prisoners, taken by the U.S. military and released to the press IN VIOLATION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION?
Doesn’t the U.S. Constitution say that treaties signed by the U.S. and approved by the Senate have the force of LAW?
So why is it okay for the U.S. military to violate the law and urinate on the Constitution, but denying a request by a family is a violation of "respect" and shouldn’t be allowed?
It’s about time the U.S. government’s lapdog press started showing some of the casualties of the wars both conservatives and liberals seem so eager to fight!
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The AP completely disregarded the family’s wishes and should not have published the photo.
Google "Halabja". Courtesy of Saddam Hussein.
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Pictures of the babies have not been politicized or publicized. Those innocent babies were put in harms way by the Taliban. They hide among the innocent. It is great propaganda. Should we be putting videos of abortions on TV as well?
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Uh huh. Sure. What about the four dead USA soldiers burned and hung in effigy on a bridge in Iraq?
You forget about a little something that happened on 9/11/01 that killed 3,000 innocent people ???
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In all honesty, the family is being selfish.
There needs to be more "content explicit" photos showing exactly what’s going on. I’m tired of the line between people living comfortable here and people dying horribly over there. We talk about it and we watch movies about it, but nothing strikes a little bit more humanizing chord than knowing that this was one of ours who died for his country. It’s more personal. People shouldn’t be afraid to look, or should it be a taboo, now that’s disgusting.
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Worse? I don’t know. It just makes me sad. Sad for the family, sad for all the people who’s lives have been effected. On both sides.
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why now after all the other deaths they get a sense of compassion and do this now !!!
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It’s not that the babies had no one to speak for them, it’s that their parents live in a country that they could be targeted by the Taliban if they DO speak out. Thank god Bush realized this and started this much needed war.
I’m prior military, my husband is still in. The military is not a celebrity. We are doing a job over there and our lives are OUR lives, not the AP’s to take and write on as they please. The AP is WRONG for going against the families wishes.
I am so SICK of people thinking the military is a celebrity. If that reporter wasn’t around, the marines could have concentrated more on doing their job and not protecting a foolish photographer. She should have put down her camera and helped, not think of all the money she’ll be making off his death! I hope her guilt stays with her forever.
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I tell you the scary part is that you would justify a wrong with a wrong. None of these pictures should ever have been released wether of babies or of soldiers. War is tough and has and never will be pretty no one need be reminded of that for what appears to be some political agenda. On a much different note, Gates spoke up because it is his job to represent the best interests of the department of defense which includes the military and their wishes…his job wether recognized or not does not include standing up for the enemy’s military or babies lost in this war.
Also it is not a good idea to tick off your military…these are the very guys and gals fighting for us….and wehter you are for or against the war demand our respect. There are many smaller nations that have had miltary coups and it is folly to beleive nothing like that could ever happen to the US. In the history of the earth there have have been many great empires and the US is one of them…..but every one of them in the past has fallen. RESPECT our military…the AP had better watch themselves…they might not get defended from the enemy the next time they take a picture of a dead marine.
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