Absolutely Read This-COST OF WAR AT WALTER REED:Difficult Image of Amputee

[callady]

 
Article & Essay: The Costs of War at Walter Reed

Inside Walter Reed Army Hospital is the horrible reality of the Iraq War, a reality that few Americans see, and fewer want to see.
By Stewart Nusbaume

The tough talking lions of the Bush Administration proclaimed “shock and awe” would destroy the Iraqi will to fight and then it would be a simple “cakewalk.” So the cocky civilians unleashed the “mother” of all air assaults on Baghdad and then our strutting commander in chief -- decked out in a fine flight suit -- proclaimed, “Mission Accomplished.”

But the flight-suit President dodged the Vietnam War, hiding in the Air National Guard’s “Champagne Unit,” strongly supporting the war from Texas. The Vice-President “had other options,” although he insisted other Americans had no option but to fight the war. The Secretary of Defense enrolled in Princeton University instead of the Korean War; after the war he enrolled in the Navy. All the hawkish Neocons were too busy arguing for the Vietnam War to actually fight in that war. Shame, they missed their “noble” causes. So when it came to Iraq, none of these men had a clue about the will to fight.

I see in the halls of Walter Reed hospital soldiers with leg braces and neck supports, soldiers with faces slashed by bombs and stitched up by doctors. Soldiers with legs terribly mangled, soldiers with no legs -- amputees with short stumps, with long stumps, without any stumps since entire limbs are missing. A man walks by without an arm. I suddenly travel back in time to another war, to another hospital when I was one of those young men without a limb. But the human carnage and waste in Walter Reed is too overwhelming to escape for more than a flash of time.

At the Army’s flagship medical facility, where thousands of wounded soldiers pass through, there is no political spin, no media filter, no presidential lies, and no patriotism without cost as there is in America. There are only the wounded and mangled from Iraq. There is the ground zero for ugly war reality. For these men and women there was no safe “Champagne Unit,” no other options, no Ivy League hiding, no just talking while others did the fighting. At Walter Reed there are not Chickenhawks.

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1190&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=33636a44788c3049b2f8042efa985de4

[tabasco]

1. There will be no justice until all of those responsible for this war..

are punished.

[Erika]

2. This is the legacy of W and his administration

and his supporters.

[callady]

3. Not One More Death Not One More Dollar

Go here to see what is happening in your community:https://www.afsc.org/2000/default.php

[populistdriven]

4. MSM is assisting the WH in the emotional blackmail of the American People

Thirty years from now, after this guy has
soiled himself for the two thousandth time,
will there be a democracy in Iraq?

No one wants to believe the war was based on Lies.
Especially this guy. No one here, myself included,
could look this man in the eyes and tell him that this
war was started because of Bush's lies.




All the Republican talking points that
questioning this war is unsupportive of
the troops is emotional blackmail
that keeps people supportive of Bush.

[callady]

5. And the censoring of the images

is purposeful deception. How does that fit into the Geneva Convention?


Media Coverage of the War in Irag
A Summary Report

Full survey results and narrative responses can be seen at: http://www.zoomerang.com/reports/public_report.zgi?ID=L226Y8AH6TME
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Many media outlets have self-censored their reporting on the conflict in Iraq because of concern about public reaction to graphic images and details about the war.  Many journalists said vigorous discussions about what, how and where to publish were conducted, in an attempt to balance fair reporting with audience sensitivities.

In addition, journalists used their Internet sites to post material different from what was printed in newspapers or broadcast on TV or radio programs. Nearly one-third of news outlets used their Web sites to disseminate materials online that were not first published or broadcast elsewhere by the organization. In most cases reporters and editors posted additional information online such as photographic essays, extended interviews and behind-the-scenes reporter accounts.

These are some of the conclusions from research conducted by American University School of Communication professors MJ Bear and Jane Hall.  More than 200 American and international journalists completed the anonymous, online survey in September and October 2004.

Journalists were asked about coverage from March 2003 through September 2004.  While the research covered events from the beginning of the conflict through the first 15 months of the occupation, it focused primarily on decision-making during major events such as the release of the Abu Ghraib prison photographs and the images showing the deaths of four American contractors in Fallujah.  

http://www.soc.american.edu/main.cfm?pageid=1235

[peacetalksforall]

6. This guy looks like he could have been a sports player.

And we know what Rumsfeld did and is going to do - make some jokes and cut the benefits.

The stupidity of man is on stage in the U.S. of Corporations.

Another way we are divided is to feel for this soldier and try to control rage at our horrible, killing neanderthals who call themselves our leaders. They lie. They used our soldier for their corporate and world agenda.

[me b zola]

7. That beautiful young man is some mother's baby

And that mother's baby has been disfigured for life because of the lies and war crimes of the BFEE. :grr:

How I hate the BFEE.

[callady]

8. kick

[callady]

9. Hope more will read this and tell the tale

since the MSM won't publish this sort of thing.