4,000 US Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/article/over-4000-us-combat-deaths-just-a-handful-images

aturday 26 July 2008

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by: Michael Kamber and Tim Arango, The New York Times


Stefan Zaklin, a photographer who was working for the European Pressphoto Agency and embedded with a United States Army company photographed this soldier, who was shot and killed in Fallujah. After the photograph ran in several European publications Mr. Zaklin was banned from working with the US Army.
(Photo: Stefan Zaklin / European Pressphoto Agency)

Baghdad - The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war. Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists - too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts - the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.

[Tab]

1. This war has been sanitized for your protection

It can't upset you, out of sight, out of mind.

[Solly Mack]

2. the less you see of it the less it pertains to you

the more you can keep it away from your mind, the less you think about it, the more you can distance yourself from it, the less real it is, the more you can support it

[4dsc]

3. Liberal media anyone???

Boy if this doesn't disspell the myth of the liberal media I don't know what will..

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I swear, we have more photographic imagery from the Panama

invasion than from 5 1/2 years war in Iraq.

In future generation (if this doesn't blow up into the seeds of WW3) Iraq will be as remembered as the Philippine-American War. The imperialists think it will be as successful as that, also.