Posted on 09/06/2009 7:36:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (AP) ―
The Associated Press is distributing a photo of a Marine fatally wounded in battle, choosing after a period of reflection to make public an image that conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.
Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard, 21, of New Portland, Maine, was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
The image shows fellow Marines helping Bernard after he suffered severe leg injuries. He was evacuated to a field hospital where he died on the operating table.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
The AP will do anything to hurt America and help our enemies. I’m sure they thought the picture would further those goals.
God bless Lance Cpl. Bernard’s family and loved ones.
No matter what Afghanistan shall NEVER, EVER become a Vietnam as far as how our military is treated.
The press is working on it. Whatever you wanna say about Bush, he had Afghanistan under control.
BO is allowing it to escalate. Every single injury and death is his responsibility.
But anyone spits on a returning hero and they will pay.
If there was any justice, the parents would be able to sue the AP in a civil action, and cost the AP many, many tens of millions, for “pain and suffering”. Exemplary damages.
I haven’t seen the photo, so it’s hard to judge one way or the other.
BO is just dealing with “overpopulation” in a round about manner.
Great! I’m assuming then that we will soon be seeing AP’s photo essay on the grim realities of abortion, right?
I did a google search & saw the picture. God bless him and his brothers who are caring for him. Damn the AP to hell. At the very least they could have blurred out his face and not named him.
What parent wants to see the face of a dying son used as a rally cry for the Taliban. There is no justification, no excuse.
How many horrific 9-11 images they have under lock & key? Wonder if they have footage of bodies hitting the pavement, bursting like watermelons? We all know why those have not been released.
I have an the AP can go f*^k themselves, the bastards!
Oh yeah,,, From the people who won’t run photos of the 9/11 WTC jumpers either. And why no photos of the dead that illegal aliens create in this country every day? And surely no photos of dead israelis after a suicide bomb in a pizza joint or a rocket attack.
They need to know that our country is full of patriots, and publishing that picture was so offensive to patriots , the sensentionalizing of a hero's suffering, that AP deserves to be ridiculed and boycotted.( And AP pursues strict copyright violation policies so that NO ONE can citicize them in print, which won't work.)
As far as I am concerned they are lower than the NY Slimes, and that is LOW!!!
So young. What a tragedy.
can we find out the name of the reporter scum who took this ?
THIS IS VERY SAD AND DRIVES HOME MY ABSOLUTE DECISION THAT I DO NOT WANT TO NATION BUILD. Why are we in obamas war here? What are we doing there. The idea was to kill Bin Laden . I don’t give a damned what these poppie growing rag heads do with their country. GET OUT!!!
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