Bill Press: Let us honor our heroes, not hide them

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Let us honor our heroes, not hide them

Bill Press http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35598



As long as we don't see their coffins, the president apparently believes, maybe we'll forget about them. He's wrong. We won't forget their sacrifice. We won't forget their bravery under fire. And we won't forget how many young Americans never came home from a war that, to this day, President Bush is still trying to find a reason for – just like he's still trying to find weapons of mass destruction, yellow-cake uranium, long-range missiles, bomb-carrying drones, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.


President Bush doesn't want pictures of flag-draped coffins on television for the same reason he has yet to attend the funeral of one American soldier killed in Iraq. He doesn't want to be seen standing next to a coffin. It might remind people of what's really going on in Iraq: American troops dying every day, because there's no postwar strategy, not enough troops and no plan for getting out.

Sure, the president expressed sympathy for the families of those 16 Americans killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down. He did so at a fund-raiser in Alabama. He also mourned the loss of six Americans killed in the Blackhawk helicopter crash. At still another fund-raiser, in Tennessee. As Don Imus observed on Nov. 10: "You got him running around the country raising $200 million, while these kids are dying."

Isn't it sad that a president who makes time for nonstop fund-raisers on his calendar can't make time for one funeral? Not even for Specialist Darryl Dent, a 21-year-old National Guard officer from Washington whose funeral was held at a Baptist church just three miles from the White House. As columnist Maureen Dowd suggested, maybe the answer is "to coordinate his schedule so he can go to cities where there are both funerals and fund-raisers."

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1. That's right Mr. Pressman