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"The Pentagon must change its policy of not showing " the killing of the enemy" and start releasing videos and footage of us annihilating the enemy."

Presidents start wars and then try to keep the blood and guts of war from the American civilians. To show an attack by American troops on an enemy where we obliterate them would be announced by the MSM as an unecessary slaughter, too much force was used, the enemy wasn't given a chance to surrender, on and on.

If we showed our troops who were killed or wounded in the same newscast as a balance, then the White House is afraid that Moms and wives wouldn't permit their sons and husbands to even join the military.

Then the women would have an honest picture of just what the men endure on a combat mission and that would be just too frightening for them, or so the politicians who have difficulty with the truth themselves seem to think.

No, it's much calmer and more controlled to show a man who is being released from the hospital with just one leg and a smile on his face than the terror in his eyes and what is seen when that leg was first blown off.

Heaven forbid the public would see a medic taking care of a wounded soldier when a wounded native child is laying across the street with similar injuries.

The risks the soldiers take to protect each other and kill the enemy are horrendous, gory and vicious. Every soldier comes home with visions that they wish had remained on the battlefield.

The last thing a man wants his mother or wife to see is for him suffering while he's pinned down by crossfire. A man dying in pain isn't what we want our American women and kids to see on TV unless it comes from Hollywood. In our society, war is just to ugly for the non engaged public to see.

I don't think there will be any media changes in the Pentagon, no Sir, I don't.

In our society, war is just to ugly for the non engaged public to see.

Sadly,most of the public is "non-engaged" unless they're protesting the killing of "freedom fighters", or protesting in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, with signs that now claim sympathy for the plight of the wounded, instead of the "Maimed for lie", or the "Halliburton Guilty of Rape and Pillage" (whatever the hell that means), that they had been carrying since they started in March.
Along with the mock coffins...

How cold and callous does one need to be to demonstrate in front of a military medical facility with flag draped coffins and signs that blame America, and President Bush for the wounded?