The President of the United States, has prohibited anyone from taking photos of the flag draped coffins, of the hundreds of dead American soldiers being returned home. He says it is being “disrespectful of the dead.” Bullshit! He is simply trying to keep an unpopular war from growing more unpopular. He doesn’t want the American people to see the reality of war. To most of the public, a number relating to the dead and injured, is merely a statistic, and easily forgotten. A picture can show the horrors of war, and it will linger until you question the sanity of ever having supported Bush’s war, or Bush.

It’s not that he doesn’t feel sorrow, or remorse, for the dead men and women who lost their lives while serving their country. I am sure he cares deeply. What makes me really angry, is how disrespectful he is being to our dead. He should allow them to return with all the honor and glory they deserve. A full honor guard and marching band should accompany their bodies, and with all of America watching. Instead, he tries to silently sneak our dead back to the States in secrecy. His own desire for political gain supersedes his respect for the people who lost their lives fighting for his cause.