thinkprogress.org — Zoriah Miller, a photojournalist and blogger embedded with U.S. Marines in Iraq, took pictures of a suicide attack?s grisly aftermath, including one of the fallen U.S soldiers. The U.S. military, however, was incensed at Miller?s portrayal of the horrors of war and immediately removed him from his Marine unit.
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dralhaJul 7, 2008
It's important to keep Americans ignorant of the horrors of war.
spacepoetJul 8, 2008
It's not stupid, it's pure evil genius. They know if even half of Americans knew the daily carnage going on there would be no war. And people ask me why i can't celebrate 4th of July until this war is over...
spacepoetJul 8, 2008
It is your attitude that has gotten them killed, not the glaring truth that war is murder and hell.
spacepoetJul 8, 2008
so the answer to death was to bring more death, brilliant.
pakeJul 8, 2008
There's nothing more important than the opinion of the family who lost their loved one.
dillonhinsonJul 9, 2008
I agree. Most of us on this site, and most Americans, have never set foot in Iraq or any other warzone. Yet, we all can write an entire book on what we feel about the war. But how do we know about what we can write? Through the media. What they tell us we have no choice to believe. You can watch documentaries or read books from authors that have been there, but we all know the media is much more powerful than any TV or written documentary. That's why the media shouldn't be controlled or manipulated.
Closed AccountJul 16, 2008
It's not rational to assume that ordinary people don't understand the costs of war, especially when so many of their family members and friends are participating in it, in one way or another.Depicting the casualties is merely an attempt to make the rest of the public feel the same way that the grieving families feel, and thus to open up genuine sorrow for public consumption.I claim, and hereby defend, that the only good reason to do this would be to create pressure to end the war, without regard for justifications of the mission or its relative success. We didn't go out of our way to show the dead on the beaches of Normandy, because the people that had the power to do so were not trying to stop or end WWII.
seltaeb4Aug 26, 2008
They did with MY Grandma. Bastards.
seltaeb4Aug 26, 2008
Why SHOULDN'T we see his body all over the place? We've paid for it, in lies, lives and lucre.../bitter sarcasm
seltaeb4Aug 26, 2008
Dugg for the correct use of "ensure."Literacy is so hard to find these days...