OMG, did anyone just see the body on CNN?

[ShaneGR]

CNN just aired a 20 second video of troops standing next to a dead US soldier and then covering him up with a sheet.

[nostamj]

1. horrible...

but, it's going to help the utter destruction of BushCo...

LIES and DEATH = the * Legacy

[rhino91063]

7. Another cartoon of the war

[CMT]

2. that is how the cracks began to break in Vietnam

when the media began showing dead soldiers. Someones son or husband or father--and today someones daughter, wife or mother.

[displacedvermoter]

3. If he loses CNN, he's lost the nation

To paraphrase LBJ about Walter Cronkite. Same here, if CNN starts to paint the reality of our troops dying everyday in Iraq, things will come to a head even before 2004. I've not heard of CNN or anyone else showing dead GIs. This is pretty important!

[nostamj]

4. there was an earlier thread

MSNBC was showing bodies too...
watch the national news tonight... I can't but I expect a report.

DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP

[KCDem]

13. love the ed. cartoon.

:hi:

[leftchick]

5. Shades of Vietnam is what I thought.

It was really shocking to see that on tv again after all these years.
Hopefully it reverberates through out the country like it did 30 years ago.....

[seemslikeadream]

6. That picture is on the front page of my small town paper!!!!!!!!

Show's over mr. bush.

[VietVet007]

8. CNN shows dead body

:wtf: Shit, I just had a mini flashback when I saw it.

[myrna minx]

9. Hi VietVet007

Welcome to Du. :hi:

These images make me sob.

[VietVet007]

11. Hi right back at you ...

:party: and everyone here on DU. Man I love this site. It's really opened my eyes to a lot of what's going on with the Bush Cabal.


Thanks Everyone
VietVet007

[Merlin]

20. Welcome aboard V V !

I corp. Americal 68-70. How 'bout you?

[RamboLiberal]

10. I thought of Vietnam when I saw the picture of the body

today on the MSNBC site and in WPost. Here's WP photo.



Sad. But this is the beginning of the end for AWOL. I have wondered since he started this damn war if it would ultimately cost him his pResidency or if we may even see that memorable evening I witnessed as a kid when LBJ announced he would not seek a 2nd term.

[Peace_2_Everyone]

12. I remember seeing Walter Cronkite’s Feb 27, 1968 statement,

http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/Cronkite_1968.html

A Clip >
“For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.”
..
sound words for today!


"Dejected US soldiers stand next to their colleague after he was killed in another attack…"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030716/168/4p8jr.html

This cluster of troops looks like an awful easy target to these untrained eyes.

[NickB79]

16. One RPG from those shrubs in the background

would get them all........

[mopaul]

14. not very photogenic

[trof]

15. mopaul-can you recaption?

"Bring 'em ON!"
I think it fits.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi VietVet007!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[SoCalDem]

18. Great one.. but the crotch seems a bit "skimpy"

We all know what a "manly man" our fearless leader is :evilgrin:

[JawJaw]

19. Four More Years!

Steve Bell nails it, yet again