AP carries picture of coffins

[Alpharetta]

The picture comes from an Air Force photo.

For the Pentagon to allow this photo to be released, is this part of the Pentagon plan to prepare us for resuming a more active military role in Afghanistan?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040202/481/ny12802021904

My local paper (Atlanta Journal) carried the picture on page 3.



Eight flag-draped cases, one for each of the soldiers killed in an explosion at a weapons cache near the city of Ghazni, 60 miles southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan. 29, 2004, await transport home in a U.S. Air Force 5th Airlift Squadron C-17 aircraft on Monday, Feb. 2, 2004, at Bagram Airforce Base, in Bagram, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Tech. Sgt. Brian Davidson, HO)

[mopinko]

1. or

does it show that the military has had it with *?

[jburton]

4. That's what I'm wondering

Somebody had to let this come out, right?

[teryang]

2. Thanks for posting this

This is news. Somebody is changing the censorship policy.

[leftchick]

3. don't forget to rate the photo!

thanks for posting... this needs to be seen.

[flamingpie2500]

5. If I am reading it right

the photo is credited to a tech. sgt. Bravo to those who chose to print it!!

[lovedems]

6. If you notice, this photo is from troops who died in Afghanistan

and that is the "acceptable war". That is the real war on terrorism. While I agree this is news, I will believe censorship will have changed when they show the flag draped coffins coming home from Iraq. Somehow I don't think that will ever happen.

[Alpharetta]

7. I see a "bait" aspect to publishing this picture.

Anti-war folks clamor "Yes, but where are the pictures of coffins from Iraq?"

so the war-mongers can say "See? They want troop fatalities in Iraq. Liberals don't support the soldiers."

[Stanchetalarooni]

8. Cleveland Plain Dealer places the 8 flag-draped coffins on pg. 1

Front and center.
http://www.cleveland.com/frontpage/
Can anyone tell me who these media people take their marching orders from?