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Sun Aug-14-05 06:31 AM
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4. juxtaposition pics of Sheehan standing in the sun and

bush* going for a bike ride.... with the caption - "Exercising Compassion - Conserving Energy...." as suggested by the story below

Pictures of caskets show public the awful costs of war
By HELEN THOMAS -- Aug. 12, 2005, 8:20PM

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The ban was apparently prompted by then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney who wanted to prevent a repetition of split-screen TV pictures like those in 1989 that showed President H.W. Bush laughing and joking about the swift victory in the U.S. attack on Panama, at the same time that an Air Force transport plane was unloading caskets at Dover.

The White House was furious about the televised contrast.

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