Are Ameicans afraid of the truth?
2006-11-03 21:08:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
"The ban on media coverage of returning casualties was imposed by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney after an embarrassing incident in which three television networks broadcast live, split-screen images in December, 1989, as the first U.S. casualties were returning from an American assault on Panama."
"In that incident, President George H. W. Bush was seen on television joking at a White House news conference while somber images of flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base moved across viewers' screens."
"The ban on war casualty images was continued during the Clinton administration, which made several exceptions to allow publication and broadcast upon the return of victims of attacks against U.S. personnel abroad, including the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000."
"President George W. Bush continued the ban following the start of the Afghanistan war in October, 2001 and the Iraq invasion in March, 2003."
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2006-11-03 21:35:29 · answer #1 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The reason is simple respect. That person did not die just so you can turn the picture of his coffin into a political statement.
Than you for showing just how little you care about the person who died.
2006-11-04 06:01:48 · answer #2 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Respect.
2006-11-04 06:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Americans and Bush is differ. I realized now. Bush is only a Bush and American still American. I am Indian.
2006-11-03 21:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by Red Scorpion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
would you want YOUR loved one's coffin splashed on national news for all to see?!
it has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with pretending casualties don't exist and EVERYTHING to do with honoring the dead in a respectful manner.
2006-11-04 05:39:33 · answer #5 · answered by Mrsjvb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush wants to hide the death of our American heros for a failed war brought on by his lies.
2006-11-03 21:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bush administration are the ones that decided this.
2006-11-03 21:28:52 · answer #7 · answered by tamwagon 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
NO but we respect our dead
2006-11-03 22:37:49 · answer #8 · answered by paki 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just Republicans
2006-11-03 21:10:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋