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I believe your assumption that we need to see "our side's" bodies and body parts in order to stir the emotions of Americans to keep our nerve/will to fight is just wrong.

We all know what is in that rubble. People that work near the site smell the rotting flesh every day they walk past. These people are not firemen or demolition workers, they work at the NYSE, Standard & Poor's and hundreds of other businesses down there. They ride the ferry from Hoboken and each day have to look at the rubble on their way in to work.........hundreds of thousands of them.........each day they see this sight.

I live in Wisconsin and I speak with them and carry their resolve. I don't need to see pictures of the desperate people jumping off the WTC buildings before they collapsed, although I have.....I don't need to see the body parts to believe there are more than 4,000 dead people in that pile.

I understand your point, but I just don't need to see it to still feel the need to carry out justice. And I certainly don't think this is a liberal plot to ease us into some passive state.

When General Eisenhower first saw concentration camp victims and the ovens and everything, he got so mad he made the Nazi POWs and the local citizens take tours. I watched old film in my REBIRTH OF ISRAEL history class just last night of reluctant citizens being forced to walk past the ovens. Look at California. You have teachers burning the American flag in front of elementary school students and the open rejection of this event's significance grows stronger every day. Look at Salon.com. Already they are returning to the mode of blaming US for what happened to US. I wish we could give New Yorkers a break and put every California liberal we could get in charge of digging through rubble for awhile. I don't need to smell the smell to believe it. But apparently a lot of people are more than ready to get back to liberal business as usual.