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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
What is political is that certain stations whose executves had decided they want to try to help Bush get re-elected have decided to pre-empt the show. Strange co-incidence that the top executives of that company all gave $2,000 (max contribution) to the Bush campaign but none of them gave to the Kerry campaign.
So now the "pro-war" camp want more national denial. Not only can we not see their coffins returned to America, we can't acknowledge their deaths. In fact they should just probably be buried in the sand in Iraq and forgotten about all together like the pawns that they are being treated like.
So JP5, if your son died in Iraq, would you want him forgotten by everyone and no respects paid. Would you want the country not even reconzing his name, just treating him as a number..death 783. I think THAT is wrong, and that is what you stand for.
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No, I would NOT want them using my son's name in that way. Having Ted Koppel spend a second reading his name would mean nothing to me. If I lost someone over there, I wouldn't want the media trying to turn public opinion around for the purposes of pulling out....and especially using my dead son's name to do it. Because these military beleived in their missions ....as did the country.....and to just pick up and leave would mean they all died in vain. No. I wouldn't want that.