Pete Stark apologize? Hell, NO. B*sh & his GOP enablers YOU apologize

[npincus]

to those who've died.... for what? ( a tiny fraction of your victims shown below) What's your reason du jour for this? WMDs? Democracy? Stability? Al Qaeda? Why haven't YOU ALL apologized?????

SCREW you all. And stick your apology demands way, way up your ____________s. Dems: if you don't try EVERYTHING you can to STOP this war, you OWN it, too.












photos from: http://www.thememoryhole.com/war/coffin_photos/dover/

[greyshade]

1. Your photos really moved me.

Wow. Now I understand - on a visceral level, not just an intellectual one - why the corporate media keeps images like this out of the press.

I think a lot of people, no matter what party affiliation, have outrage fatigue. When the lies started, we called our Congressional Representatives. When drums of war were sounded, we marched in protest in the streets by the millions. The military-industrial complex still rolled on, and is still munching on our tax dollars and the lives of our men and women in the military years later.

But the majority of public opinion is now with us. We must keep up the pressure. We must support people like Pete Stark who dare speak their conscience.

[npincus]

2. I'm convinced images like these would have forced the Dems hand a long time ago

Now is the time to reassert our right to have these images back in the MSM.

[daninthemoon]

3. But, how will we know about Britney? I was born in'62, and I remember

as a kid, the evening network news showed graphic vivid images of the horror of that war. The reporters told us what happened there that day. Then after the news, the celebrity filled shows came on. Today, "dissenting" reporters like Rather lose their jobs. I don't know what the answer is. I've written to and boycotted company's that sponsor things like faux news, but my 2 cents don't make a difference.

[npincus]

4. ..and I'm a year senior!

ugh... hate to admit that. :) My parents subscribed to 'Life" magazine, and remember as a child, poring through the photos, seeing the unvarnished horror. Back in those days, the "news", tv and print, contained news. And the uprising of the day was a consequence of that transparency, along with the Draft, of course.

How degraded the Fourth Estate, our government, has become. But hey, Britney ran over a paparazzi's foot today!

[Me.]

5. His Staffer Just Said

He's not going to apologize.

[bdamomma]

6. the pictures we never see, these soldiers coffins returning should be

be seen by all, and not under all this secrecy.

Plus did anyone bring up this little incident up and do you remember an apology from this individual

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/12/boehner-troop-deaths-in-iraq-are-a-small-price/

Boehner: Troop deaths in Iraq are ‘a small price.’In an interview on CNN today, Wolf Blitzer asked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) about “the Americans who are killed every month” in Iraq and “how much longer” the “military commitment is going to require?” “The investment that we’re making today will be a small price if we’re able to stop al Qaeda here,” replied Boehner. As Atrios notes, the “small price” Boehner refers to is “3774 dead US troops and counting.”

[bunny planet]

7. When is Bush going to apologize for his little comedy routine of pretending to

look under tables and chairs for the WMD he sent our troops to Iraq to find. 'Are they under here', 'No, are they under here' ha, ha, ha, with his base laughing their asses off over the big joke while 500 of our soldiers had already died for his lie of a war. Time to circulate that video tape far and wide, he was amused and amusing others while our young men and women were put in the line of fire. Hell no, Pete Stark shouldn't apologize. He should elaborate further by saying the main reason he sent them wasn't amusement but was war profiteering for himself and his corporate buddies.

[npincus]

9. looking for still pics...

please post any if you can find.

if only I knew PhotoShop better... here's one.

[progpen]

8. If Stark is forced to apologize...

then we have lost.

[Hydra]

10. K&R

Keep up the good work!

[monmouth]

11. It must be heart-wrenching for the young men/soldiers who have this duty...

These pictures need a very wide exposure to all media...My heart just breaks.

[npincus]

12. I feel like sending some to "I-Reporter" (CNN? MSNBC?) which solicits

photos from average folks...

[monmouth]

13. That would be wonderful... Of course if they will show it is another story..

[greyshade]

14. Send them! Let's all send them. Even if one more person sees them...

...a person who works in the media, then that is one more person who has the truth staring them in the face - whether they show them or not.

I looked for information on how to do this, and came across a site called I, Reporter. Its page on Katrina photos http://www.ireporter.org/photojournalism/index.html leads me to suggest we may want to upload photos to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ as well.