How do you feel about CNN showing footage of our troops being sniped and killed?
959694
The media is the main enemy we are facing in the fight against terrorism. If the media had this much access during WWII, I guarantee Hitler wouldn't have been stopped. War is ugly and is best dealt with by the people that are trained to do so.
1053181
You are actually seeing how they will spin it right before your eyes. All the media and anti-war clan has done since these two brave soliders bodies were found is talk about the mutilation, beheading, DNA testing, unnatural barbaric torture, and how only pieces of them were found. It is an absolute disgrace the way this has been covered. Yes, we need to know the realities of war, yes we need to all know this happened but why doesn't the media try to tell us a little bit about these two solidiers and the way they lived their lives. Why not hear more about how they lived. I definately am NOT trying to take away from the deplorable way they died - its outrageous and they need justice but I can't help feeling their deaths have been exploited by the media. As for the way the anti american factions will handle this. The exact way we would expect them to. Justify it with saying that americans kill Iraqi's everyday. Does anyone really think Syria, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia cared one bit about the abuse Saddam doled out to his own people? Of course not. No one will ever change Anti American sentiment - what needs to be done is to make them irrelevant. I believe when people come forward and actually condone this type of behavior that people who have even a little bit of intelligience start to disregard them.
900898
No it doesn't look good.  And whats with the other answer, "Donald Rumsfeld letting this happen"  "Our boys should have never been jailed"  I hate Rumsfeld, but I have enough sense to realise he  had nothing to do with the raping / burning of a 14 year old girl and the murder of her whole family.  You think these soldiers deserve no punishment?  I dont care how bad conditions are in Iraq, not too many other soldiers raping and killing little girls.  Give me a break, are you crazy!?
624638
This is a difficult subject....\n\n     I have no problem imagining a group of Marines losing control and rampaging after the loss of a comrade... after a while your enemy starts to be less than human in the mind of a combat soldier, it is am extremely stressful environment to live in day after day. Also since the operation is now largely a peace-keeping one (no major offensives going on) our soldiers have no clear cut front lines... the enemy could be coming at them from anywhere at any time. This is not unlike what our soldiers faced in Viet Nam... not knowing for sure who the enemy is, or where they are. This kind of tension, over a prolonged period of time, can make otherwise rational men do things they would not normally do. When you are attacked, the first knee-jerk reaction is "strike back hard and fast". If the attack was a booby trap then your attackers could be miles away... but the need to lash out against some one is very powerful. I imagine this is what happened at Haditha. Sadly, the only thing unusual about this is the fact that the media got wind of it.\n     After a full and thorough investigation, if some individuals are found to have acted outside the rules of engagement set down for them, then YES they should be punished. Just because you are a soldier in a combat zone that doesn't give you the right to behave like a butcher. If we cannot show at least some respect for the people we are defending then we shouldn't be there in the first place. If we had stated, BEFORE the invasion, to the average Iraqi on the street, "America will come and overthrow Saddam for you, but in the process we will kill 20,000 Iraqi civilians, some because of mistakes, some because war is just a brutal messy business" how many of them do you think would reply, "Why sure, come on over and kick his butt out, no matter what the consequences." I bet not too many.
760135
I feel like everyone else, it is senseless keeping our boys out there.  My brother was in Iraq for a while and not a day went by that the whole family did not feel sick with worry about him.  He's heading off to Afghanistan soon and that will be just as bad.\n\nOn the other hand, we started this war along with Dubya and it is unfair to the Iraqi people if we just storm in, turn their lives and country upside down, then abandon them when they need our help to get back on their feet.  \n\nThe question is - do they want our help?  The media would have you believe that they do not and if this is indeed the case then we should pull everyone out of there and let them carry on.
1047808
It makes me want to cry thinking what those marines went through...My problem is not with the marines, or Bush, but with the terrorists, Al-Qiada..they are savages with no regard for human life..all in the name of " a religion of peace-Islam"?? I'm sure not every Islamic person is like this, I don't want to group them all as savages..just the ones that profess Islam and do the opposite...I'm rambling..bottom line..I want our men and women to come home. They are in my prayers always.\nI do feel that if we pull out we will be known as the country that doesn't finish what it starts, even weak..and they way things are now I don't think we want that.
837326
Yes, everyone should watch it. It isn't just Lou Dobbs it is all of Cnn, surprising. \n\nHopefully all the other networks will wake up and start talking about it. \n\nThis country is in trouble, for some of us we will make it financially but for many they will sink into the hole of no return. \n\nI do agree, throw them all out good bad and ugly. Most will continue to vote party hoping for the meatless bone that they keep throwing them. Sad!
285443
Thank you for posting the link, i never knew that it was there. there are some Fantastic pictures in this site.\nWhy are there not more pictures like these being showed to the world media.\njust go'es to show you how ONE SIDED the media really is.\nshow Blood,Body's,Explosion's,Devastated town's,Burning buildings. Certainly they will show them a hundred times over.\nNever do you see the Allied troop's doing anything positive.\nFreedom of the press, yes to only print what they want.\nand not what could print or should.\nAgain thank you for the LINK.
1097589
I would like to say how completely outraged I am with the New York Times.  When they reveal secret programs aimed at finding terrorist, they put my husband, a US Marine, and the men and women serving with him, at risk.  They don't have a right to endanger my husband's life more than it is.  I agreed with Mr. Daly (on the O'Reilly Factor Friday night) when he said that in order to have liberty we must have secret programs.  Thanks to the left wing media, a secret program is now considered to be a cover-up and dangerous to our civil liberties.  As far as a I am concerned, the left wing is just as bad as the terrorist at the moment.  Shame on the New York Times and all the papers that revealed this program.  God bless America and God bless our troops.
1010472
The photographic evidence of the justifiably violent deaths of these creatures was presented to the media in order to try to convince some of the wackjobs out there like you that they are actually dead. So now instead of fabricating conspiracy theories about how they're not really dead and it's all propaganda, now you fabricate conspiracy theories about Marines "murdering" him. That is a vicious and disgusting lie.\nThe Marines who arrived on the scene after the bombing actually attempted to give Zarqawi medical aid, as is the official practice of all US armed forces after an enemy has been injured. No, it makes no sense to most people; if you just tried to kill them, why would you turn around and try to save them? But that just shows you the insane lengths to which our military goes in order to promote justice and fair engagement practices. \n\nIf you don't like the pictures, look away. Just don't try to censor the rest of us who like to see concrete proof of the removal of evil human debris from this planet. The rest of us enjoy that sort of thing.
506238
I vote no ..... but CNN might like it.
976894
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/\n\n\nIt's a shame. \n\nSupport our warriors, but not the war.
581519
Just like Viet Nam, the only station I know of that shows the dead in silent respect is PBS on Jim Learer News. I watch it every night to get the truth the other networks aren't showing. Deaths are still happening in Afghanistan too, and PBS shows them as well. I would rather know the truth then be lied too, and that is what I feel the present Government is doing to America on a daily basis. It's really sad, and I wish our military would come back home, so we can heal from all of this.
233797
I did and do support this war, and I cry because we can;t get it right because of all the people against it. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. The soldiers are doing a good job keeping their moral up, but it's harder and harder on them when they know how half the country feel. I bet that makes them feel confident to go fight every day. When I hear the left talk in here, I try hard to think are they right? am I wrong? At least I try and weigh the odds. The left are always right. Blatantly right. Their hatred for Bush makes them never wonder, could they be wrong? Just once? Bush has not done one thing right in there eyes.
1056340
We should but,  part of me thinks we should try to finish what we started.  But, how can we truly know what's going on if the media continues to feed us full of bull!\nGod BLess your brother and ALL the other soldiers out AROUND the world DOING THEIR JOB regardless of what we think,...They are just doing their job! GOD BLESS AMERICA! HOME OF THE BRAVE!
708010
Hear! Hear! Makes me want to holler at my TV sometimes......I could care less about who is doing what to whom where they are doing it and how many times a day........As tragic as page scandal was, it got more airtime than the dead bodies being recovered on a DAILY basis in Iraq.......disgusting that we care about titilation rather than the issues....\n\nI am more interested in the economy heading towards a recession, uncontrolled govt. spending that builds bridges to nowhere and gives more money to politicians as earmarks yet leaves the troops without much-needed gear, education programs being cut, social security being neraly-defunct, healthcare costs rising everyday.....but I guess that is too boring!!!
711187
well it was on the t.v. up close & personal, I will carry those images with me till I die. other than the casualty lies we REALLY saw the Vietnam war, we saw those flag draped coffins too, I believe it should still be that way, Americans should see the cost of war in blood & death, this sanitized conflict is no good, the people are disconnected from it, the coverage of the Vietnam war was reallity, that is NOT a bad thing.