April 26, 2004
WaPo, AP, et al. Blow It Big
According to
Drudge, when
The Memory Hole filed an FOIA request for photos of caskets arriving at Dover, they did not realize that the CD given included more than merely War in Iraq/War on Terror dead. Consequently, more than 70 photos run on their site as Iraqi dead were actually images of the seven killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster a year ago February.
AP, The Washington Post, Reuters and CNN picked up the story without doing any independent verification whatsoever. So far only The Washington Post has run a retraction.
Via the deliciously named Barking Moonbat Early Warning System.
The actual Memory Hole story with the photos.
Also, see this article for a roundup of editorials around the nation that demand such pictures be made available to the public. Everyone says we would be honoring the dead and giving the families better closure in so doing, and I'm sure two or three of these people are actually sincere. I'd so love to think we could make these images available as a regular thing and not have them exploited by the anti-war left. But I'm afraid I know what the primary motivation is for most of these editorial writers.
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Yeah, I hate it when people use images of flag-draped coffins for political purposes.
Posted by: Christophe at April 26, 2004 08:45 PM (xYu5N)
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Ironically, by trying so hard to keep dead soldiers from being a political issue, Bush has made it a political issue. A cynical move and a political blunder. He knew that American soldiers were going to die in this war. That was an acceptable cost to him when he went to war. The least he could do is let the coffins be shown, and show up for a few funerals, and put the honor of these soldiers above the cost to his image.
Of course Liberals (like myself) are going to use these images to support our argument that the costs of going to war were (and are) too high. What else could we do? Just like Conservatives use the images of Saddam's capture to support their position. I totally expect and accept that.
Posted by: Hip Nerd at April 26, 2004 09:55 PM (tfidl)
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HN--
For Bush to "show up for a few funerals" might create more problems than it solves. After all, he can't go to all of them.
I'd be interested in how many Presidents have attended such services.
I'd also be interested in how many people are upset about the "bad journalist, no coffin" policy--I mean, truly upset--who are not anti-war to begin with.
Nice shot, Christophe.
Posted by: Attila Girl at April 27, 2004 12:46 AM (q85Vj)
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