War Hawks Don’t Want to Look at the Faces War

April 29, 2004

On Friday April 30, 2004, Ted Koppel of ABC will say the names and show the pictures of more than 500 soldiers killed in the Iraq War.  ABC says the broadcast will be a tribute to the sacrifice they made for our country.

This immediately raised the ire of many who felt the broadcast is just anti-war propaganda and not really news.  They also claim it undermines our war efforts.

To add to this controversy, Sinclair Broadcasting plans to censor free speech by pre-empting the broadcast from stations it controls. Their action certainly politicizes the issue and undermines American democracy.  

How would telling the truth about the deaths of our soldiers be undermining anything except the political aspirations of Bush and his supporters?

Bush and his supporters are not willing to look at the tragic outcomes and horrors of the Iraq War. They don’t want to be reminded of what war means.  The faces of the fallen will show mostly young men and women who willingly sacrificed their lives for a war, Bush and the neocons started by lying. 

Deep down, do pro-war neocons think the death of our soldiers in Iraq was in vain and don’t want the public to know?