Questions about W's war rise with each new death.

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Questions about W's war rise with each new death.

A coffin team, a firing party and a bugler will assemble along the rolling hillside of Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday to bury John Hart, who was 20 when killed in Iraq several days ago.
Pfc. Hart was a fine-looking young man, proud and smiling, serving with the Army's 1st Battalion when he became one of more than 115 to die in combat since President Bush stood last spring on the deck of an aircraft carrier behind a huge banner with the words "Mission Accomplished" written on it and told the nation that the big fighting was over.

Hart's body comes back to a country where nearly every element of our culture - TV, magazines, newspapers - pays more attention to Elizabeth Smart and Scott Peterson than to the truly noble among us who have lost their lives in a war that remains largely unexplained.

Now, months after the battle began and Baghdad fell, it is pretty obvious why we went into Iraq and knocked Saddam Hussein from power: Because we wanted to and we could.

Sure, the guy was evil, a walking weapon of mass destruction all by himself. And, no doubt, the United States is responsible for an awful lot of positive things going on in Iraq that we rarely hear or read about.

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1. Networks won't show this soldier

Because they made a deal with the Pentagon to NOT show the body bags and coffins in order to get their reporters "embedded" with the troops in Iraq.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. God, that's cunning.

But surely their reporters aren't embedded any more. Can they not show some damned backbone ever?

[stopbush]

2. Mike Barnicle - plagarist extraordinaire has spoken!

I especially like this sentence:

"Hart's body comes back to a country where nearly every element of our culture - TV, magazines, newspapers - pays more attention to Elizabeth Smart and Scott Peterson than to the truly noble among us who have lost their lives in a war that remains largely unexplained."

I've got one myself:

"Hart's body comes back to a country where nearly every element of our culture - TV, magazines, newspapers - pays more attention to right-wing whores than to the truly noble among us who have actually done something for this country. That's how guys like Mike Barnicle who steal the work of others and pass it off as their own can still make millions as a TV & print media whore shilling for the right wing. Whether you're Mike, Ollie North, Bill Bennett, Rush Limbaugh or whoever else, you'll always have multiple forums to express your voice (hate) in this country...as long as it's the "right" voice."