Gates May Allow Dems To Exploit the Caskets of Dead Soldiers

They've been dying to do this and the pun is intended. That's all this is and nothing more, the liberals have loved to exploit dead soldiers since the Vietnam war, and they fought and cried all through the Bush administration to be able to have the caskets as anti war propaganda to be exploited by the blogs and MSM day after day. I don't need pictures of dead soldiers' caskets night after night to remind me of the grave and dear losses incurred in this war against terror as I salute them all every single week on this blog and have for two years every Wednesday just like today below this post along with about 200 other bloggers.

Only a dumb simpleton liberal would be swayed either way by simply those images. This situation is far more complicated than 20 seconds of anti war propaganda exploiting the dead as liberals do/
I know this much, were I a soldier which I am not and never have been I certainly wouldn't want my dead body and it's casket on anyone's blog, website or news program for any reason whatsoever, period end of story. And my bet is most all soldiers and their families would feel exactly the same way.

Otherwise they themselves can release pictures of the individual caskets themselves for the exploitation of the left, like Cindy Sheehan has made a career out of doing. Which makes me wonder exactly where the hell she is today by the way?

How come the democrats haven't found a place for her after using her and her dead soldier son Casey all these years? That proves my point right there. There's no use for her or her dead son anymore so they kicked her to the curb long ago once they were done exploiting her and Casey God rest his soul.

Gates orders review of ban on photos of coffins:
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AP "Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review Tuesday of a Pentagon policy banning media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins of military dead, signaling he was open to overturning the policy to better honor fallen soldiers.

At least two Democratic senators have called on President Barack Obama to let news photographers attend ceremonies at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and other military facilities when military remains are returned to the United States. Obama told reporters Monday he was reviewing the ban.

'If the needs of the families can be met, and the privacy concerns can be addressed, the more honor we can accord these fallen heroes, the better,' Gates told reporters at a Pentagon news conference Tuesday. 'So I'm pretty open to whatever the results of this review may be.'

Gates said he initially asked for the ban to be reviewed a year ago, and was advised then that family members might feel uncomfortable with opening the ceremonies to media for privacy reasons or pressure to attend them despite financial costs.

'I think that looking at it again makes all kinds of sense,' Gates said. 'And we will do so, and I've put a fairly short deadline on that effort.'

Shortly after Obama took office, Democratic Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey also asked the White House to roll back the ban that was put in place in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush.

This is a montage of a flash exhibit that can be found on the George Washington University website that contains images of different ceremonies and basically caskets of dead soldiers in various types of movements from the defense department being forced to release them for what, this basically.

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