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The screaming leftards have finally gotten their way. Defense Secretary Gates has given in to their manufactured anti-war outrage. He will now allow flag draped coffins to be used as anti-America propaganda by the foam-at-the-mouth leftists who are still angry about us winning the Iraq war. This has been a sore subject for me. Regardless of where you stand on the war, you know there are casualties; the government is not hiding anything. In fact, each death is announced, along with the person's name and a picture if available. Taking pictures of coffins and having ideological spats over them...

Some have accused the media of trying to undermine the war effort by swaying public opinion with images of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq, but the visuals are justified and important, according to Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley. Curley was the keynote speaker of the Sunshine Week dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on March 18. Curley defended the media's use of the controversial photographs as "moving and very unifying." "Well, we've all tried and we've all been turned down, and I think your question is another reminder we should keep trying," Curley said when...

My wife lost her brother, a FDNY firefighter , in the South Tower, on 9/11.Do you remember, back in 2004, President Bush was trashed by just about every lib and many 9/11 family members for using a brief glimpse of a flag-drapped victim being brought out from Ground Zero in a campaign commerical? Of course you do. Yet now some of the same liberals from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are using the flag-drapped coffins of our troops in an online commerical. Click on the image below and see for yourself:CLICK ON IMAGEIt is sheer hypocrisy for the same people...