[pennyfarmer]

First let me state I am all for the Iraq war, I am in the Navy reserves.

The Pentagon I feel is trying to whitewash what war is about. They don't want people to know that people really die in battle. I know that the left would like to use this film to further their agenda but trying to ban filming gives them one more stone to throw when it does get filmed. We need to glorify these soldiers acts and not shame them by hiding and secreting away their bodies.

[bill1952]

I don't know.
In WWII, did the media film thousands of dead *every* day?

Was FDR subject to endless media attacks co ordinated with his political opponents, while tens of thousands of bodies poured in from the pacific theater?

Were the media to be an objective purveyor of the news, my feelings might be different, but they are little more than the PR arm of the DNC and with a distinctive Socialist flavor.
Christ, look at kerry running around the world, carping away to foreign leaders that the current administration is wrong.
Nah. A pox upon them. We all know the true costs of war.

[sheltonmac]

The Pentagon I feel is trying to whitewash what war is about. They don't want people to know that people really die in battle.

You think? It isn't by accident that our "news" stations only present us with PG-rated war coverage.