Pictures of Caskets

[classicman]

Originally Posted by tw

The George Jr administration is hyping nonsense about pictures of flag draped caskets.

Double standard. Why is it wrong to take and publish pictures of caskets from the Iraq invasion - and yet it is right for George Jr to put those same pictures in his presidental campaign advertisement? Yes Koppel was rather blunt when he started his "Last Thought" about this flag draped casket pictures as something really quite trivial.

Ted Koppel was right on the money. Honor our dead. Let their caskets and honor guard be shown live and in pictures as they arrive home. George Jr is so ashamed of those good dead men; therefore George Jr hides behind nonsensical political spin. Banning pictures of their caskets is wrong, blemishes their supreme sacrifice, and is only for the greater good of George Jr - and his self serving agenda.

The bodies of seven CIA officers killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber were returned to the U.S. today in a private ceremony as authorities confirmed that the assailant was a Jordanian informant who turned against his CIA handlers.

Seven flag-draped coffins were handed over to the officers' families in a ceremony at Dover Air Force Base attended by CIA Director Leon Panetta and other agency and national security officials, CIA spokesman George Little told ABC News.

"These patriots courageously served their nation," Little said.

No cameras were allowed in the ceremony and the names of the fallen officers were not released, although the names of several of the dead have been made public by their families.

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Two of the victims were female officers and at least one of them had been part of the unit hunting Osama bin Laden since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

I guess we did go after him after all.