This is an article I found from november 2003, it is the first article like it that i came accross, i have found many more.

Army Gen. Hugh H. Shelton asked it in a speech at Harvard University in 1999: "Is the American public prepared for the sight of our most precious resources coming home in flag-draped caskets into Dover Air Force Base?"

Despite more than 400 U.S. fatalities in the Iraq war, the public has not seen a single flag-draped military casket at Dover Air Force Base, where U.S. war dead usually arrive on their journey home.

Military officials say a more than decade-old ban on press photography at the base is to spare the feelings of military families. Critics say it also benefits President Bush by suppressing powerful images of death.

At issue is whether the American people are getting a full picture of the costs of war................................................... .............

Just a thought , you might want to search for some of those immages and see how inspired you feel then, especially as they didn't have to die and the war didn't have to happen.

I remember in a history lesson looking at propoganda adverts from Nazi Germany, I thought how can these people of been so stupid to have believed all this and then to have allowed Hitler into power..................then I realised nothing has changed .



Peace