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I just finished watching Journalists at War on Discovery Times. Toward the end of the show the point was made that the censorship of war isn't due to taste, but for public opinion. If the public saw war in all it's graphic bloody killing then any support for it would slip away.
One journalist observed the military and media scream about respect for the dead. He appeared a little flabbergasted and said something along the lines of 'there was no respect for them when they were killed'.
I intentionally avoid graphic photos when on the internet. The reason being is I saw enough when I worked as a medic in the Army, an EMT and as an ER Tech. I've seen the horrible things people can do to one another. The makers of this documentary showed the ugly side of war. :(
But much of the public hasn't. If they saw five minutes of Al Jazeera footage from the Iraq war, they would see the dead innocent and how high the cost of war truly is. It takes a growing death toll to get public attention, IMO, but the body of a child could turn public opinion into demands for an end to the violence.
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