Human Cost Of War No Longer Important
Sep 29, 2009 Political
When George Bush was president there was a rule that the media were not allowed to photograph the caskets of our returning war dead. This caused a stir because the media claimed that Bush was hiding the human cost of the war. The claim was that he did not want the media to show caskets on TV, on the Internet, and in papers because then more people would oppose the war.
The thought never occurred to them that he wanted our war dead to come home in dignity without being exploited by the media and the America haters on the left.
Joe Biden said our heroes were brought in in a clandestine fashion:
“These young men and women are heroes,” Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. “The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong.” Examiner
Note to Biden, the past tense of sneak is sneaked.
I have been to Dover on business a number of times and our heroes are not sneaked in. When an aircraft carrying remains lands it goes to a special place on the base and all other operations stop while they are off loaded and taken where ever they go before they are transported home. I have been there at all hours of the day and everyone on base knows what is going on so they are hardly sneaked in.
When Obama took office he lifted the ban on allowing caskets to be photographed as long as the family agreed. I really have no problem with that because the family has a say in the matter and about 60% of them allow it. As far as I know the photographers have been respectful.
The funny thing is, now that Obama is in charge and the ban has been lifted the press is not very interested in taking pictures. The AP has a photographer there for every arrival but that is about all now. After all the fuss they are not interested in being there.
I guess now that Obama is in charge of the wars and now that they both belong entirely to him (especially Afghanistan), the human cost of war is no longer an issue. The media cannot risk showing all the caskets coming home and demonstrating that Obama was full of E. coli when he said that he would bring our troops home right away and that he would put an end to things.
Hell, Obama has blown off his commander and has delayed taking a decision on increasing troop strength in Afghanistan. He is too busy to ensure the needs of our military are addressed but he had time to fly to Copenhagen to beg for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics. Another payback to the thugs in Chicago and all being done while our troops are ignored.
Since Obama is ignoring the troops and since he is not sending any reinforcements there will likely be more casualties.
They human cost of war will rise under Obama but now we don’t need all those pesky pictures.
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Maryland Senator; Pictures Of Dear Leader Obama In All State Buildings
Feb 3, 2009 Political
It took the election of Barack Obama to make one Maryland State Senator recognize what it means to be a good citizen. Lisa Gladden is introducing legislation that would require every state building to have a picture of Barack Obama in it. Gladden evidently wants Obama to share wall space with the governor whose picture adorns all state buildings. She must not understand the difference between state and federal government. You see, Obama’s picture is in the federal buildings within the state.
But to Gladden, this is not a matter of whether one supports Obama, it is about supporting America. To Gladden, putting Obama’s picture in all state buildings is all about being a good citizen.
So, is this to indicate that we all were not good citizens when Bush, Clinton, H.W. Bush, Reagan and every other past president was in office because their pictures were not hanging in every state building?
It would seem that we were incapable of being good citizens until Obama came along and forgave our sins. This is the mentality of some of the morons who go ga ga over the sainted one. Gladden is so smitten with him and his election that she is not concerned about the cost associated with the pictures and she is unaware that her request appears to be more about the man and not so much about being a good citizen because she is blinded by the light that shone through the clouds that opened when Obama was elected. Her Obama worship has caused her to ignore the financial mess we are in, a mess that was caused by moron state legislators like, well, her.
It is not surprising that Gladden would be unconcerned with the cost. When Baltimore was preparing for the Obama express to come to town the costs were piling up and topped out around 11 million dollars. Gladden said that it did not matter that the state had budget problems as long as Obama was president.
I guess she, like Peggy the Moocher, figures now that Obama has been elected all our financial woes will go away as he steps up to pay our bills.
Seems to me that there have been other leaders whose pictures were placed everywhere; Hitler, Il, and the other Hussein.
Maybe after Dear Leader is in office for a year or so Lisa Gladden can have bronze statues made and put them in front of all the state buildings.
At least that will give us something to tear down during the revolution…
Source:
Baltimore Examiner
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