Commentary ~ November 19, 2003:
When it comes to the brave American men and women who have lost
their lives in Iraq, President Bush and his Cronies have adopted
a strange policy: deny they even exist.
For the first time in America's history, television crews and photographers
are prohibited from filming flag-draped coffins of American casualties
coming home from Iraq. Cameras also are not allowed at their transfer
point, Ramstein Air Base in Germany. And definitely none at their
first stop in the United States, Delaware’s Dover Air Force
Base. Most of the dead Americans arrive home in the dead of night.
Bush is hiding the bodies from Americans because he knows there
will be a political price to pay when the country realizes he is
sending young men and women to die for his own misguided policies.
Bush does even not attend the funerals of soldiers who gave their
lives in his war.
Furthermore, cameras are not allowed inside the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center to film the thousands of soldiers who have been catastrophically
wounded in Iraq, nor are cameras allowed inside the facility at
Ft. Stewart in Georgia where the wounded await treatment in conditions
they have described as inhumane.
As is well known in the United States, any illegal immigrant who
presents him or herself to a military recruiting center is hired.
Most of these people no doubt sign up hoping down the road the U.S.
Government will grant a green card. A friend who has just returned
from the region tells me that only Americans with citizenship are
even being flown back, and that for every two American casualties
reported in the American media, there are at least a half-dozen
others. Many of these are actually illegal immigrants, who -- I've
been told -- are simply wrapped up in bags and buried incognito
in the desert. Illegal or not, these brave souls were sent by the
Bush team to die for its goals. They deserve to be recognized as
fallen American soldiers and their families should be looked after
by the U.S. Government.
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