Salon has some pictures that should be seen. The Iraq War is now a 2 year old conflict, ostensibly there are thousands of photos like this and beyond. Why do we see nothing of them in our “free” press?
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August 24th, 2005
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As we all know, a ‘free press’ gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
I think that we tend to forget that those kinds of images didn’t make the front page of the New York Times during WWII, either.
I guess that it was because the repressive, nuke-happy, concentration-camp-loving, imperial Democrat regime that had dominated the White House for twelve years ordered things to be done that way.
Or were there other reasons?
It is true that Roosevelt censored WWII images. There is a wonderful book called “The Censored War” filled with grueling pictures of GIs fighting in Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and other places in the Pacific Theater. But it was stupid for Roosevelt to do it. The American people would never have given up support for WWII if they had seen those photos because the stakes were so high and, by late 1943 (after El Alamein and Stalingrad), the war had clearly been turning in our direction. We should be able to see all the images from Iraq and make of them what we must.
Why, Elrod?
And no clichés or buzz words allowed…
I wish I could remember where I found it yesterday, but while traveling through the blogs I found someone had posted cartoons drawn by Dr. Seuss during WWII. They were ridiculing the defeatists of the time and attempting to encourage Americans to not loose heart, because that was exactly what the Axis wanted us to do. I’ve seen enough propaganda from both sides while reading about that war to know that the very things that are threatening us with defeat today were alive and well even then.