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In reply to the discussion: Video appears to show troops urinating on corpses [View all]mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)Along with the obvious inferences, "War is Hell," and "There are certain Video Clips
our Public News Media Will Never Show Us,"
....this one makes me think, "our guys over there must be way, way, way over-
stressed."
When I was a kid, there was a war on. It was "the war to save Vietnam from the
horrors of the Red Menace, Communism."
Television news regularly gave us views of that war. Even when they were
horrific.
That's no longer true.
This horrific "war on terror" has been completely sanitized. But there may be
Americans paying the cost for that news suppression. The war is invisible.
Anything that happens only exists in their own psychic zone.
Edit to add:
Link to a great book on war propaganda, and it's consequences:
http://www.amazon.com/First-Casualty-Phillip-Knightley/dp/1853753769
"The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker
From the Crimea to Kosovo"