"John Hairell" wrote in message
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On 01 Jan 2004 02:55:14 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote:

The Washington Post (and other major media) within the last few weeks
had an article about the press being restricted from access to Dover
AFB, where mortuary flights come in.

While I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, it's interesting none the less.
When some government functionary makes some decision due to good
intentions, the results are often less than stellar. And it feeds the
conspiracy fringe elements...

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Who began this media restriction Clinton or Bush? Hint....it wasn't Bush.
Interesting that its now being spun as a Bush initive, mostly by people
who
know that's not the case.



Notice that I didn't put a spin on the info, i.e. who started the
policy. My main point was that a press restriction does exist, at
Dover and other places.

While DOD's interest is supposedly in helping the affected families,
and to not have photos pop up in the media "out of context", the end
result is that the US public does not see any photos of rows upon rows
of caskets coming back from Iraq.

Maybe because for the most part there are no "rows upon rows of caskets
coming back from Iraq". We are losing on average what, maybe one fatality
per day to hostile fire? Kind of hard to make one or two caskets fill "rows
upon rows". "Rows upon rows"...juts more hysterical and over-sensationalized
claptrap.

Brooks


John Hairell )