There is a big difference between WTC footage, and flag draped coffins of soldiers. It is more than just honest images.

The equivalent would have been the flag draped coffins of 911 victims in a political ad. Every victim has a name. Every coffin has a name. The WTC has a meaning, not a person’s name. Crowd scenes have meaning, but not a person’s name.

It has never been appropriate in this society to use the burial of a recently dead person for a promo. The dead person belongs to the family of the dead. That is why picketing the funerals of dead soldiers is so resented. You have to be family.

It doesn’t have to be put in the rule book.

Using the coffins is exactly like showing Bush’s picture under the cross hairs of a rifle scope. It is a dirty pleasure. You do not do either, if you have any decency.

Both images say a lot about the opposition. Most people catch on that the target picture shows a gleeful craving for the death of the one in the cross hairs. but there is also the creepy glee of the trophy hunter in the display of a victim who can never give consent to his own desecration.

The Democrats were stupid to think they could get away with that trick, and they are even stupider to think they can lie, and act like innocent victims, and blame everything on Republicans. The American people can see through cheap lies like that, and …

They’re honest images… this isn’t like that LBJ one with the little girl and the nuke. The images have to do with a core issue for the party (security against terrorism for Republicans, a faster exit from Iraq for Democrats). My reaction is about the same as when pro-abortion people complain about anti-abortion protesters showing pictures of aborted fetuses. If you can’t handle the consequences of your position, maybe you should reconsider.

Well said, Mark. I think we must be willing to accept the truth. Doctoring the DeLay photo is another story.

Also, I think it was Mike Reagan who was being pushed by Alan Colmes to answer the question in, uh, question.

One is a rallying cry to get justice, the other a way to provoke anti-government feelings to STOP us from getting justice.

If Hannity couldn’t figure that out, he is less eloquent than I previously thought … and I never thought he was that eloquent in the FIRST place!

Actually, sooner than that. They yelled “Quagmire!!” during the first week of the war during that big sandstorm that lasted for days. Heck, they’ve yelled “Quagmire” nearly every week since the war started….until it became “Vietnammmmmmmmmmm!” (voice of John sKerry).

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GOP Bloggers: Dem strategy – Run like a Republican
Carol Platt Liebau: Joe & Valerie Wilson – Dumb or Delusional?
Protein Wisdom: Daily Kos imagines a “world without Israel”
Allah @ Hot Air: Democrats repeating what they sow
Gatewa…

Any statements the dems say in regards to Iraq will be disengenious. It’s like impeaching Bush. The dems were planning on impeaching him before the election. (well, maybe they waited for the SC to rule on Florida)

The other interesting bit is not what was depicted, but what was omitted. In the final bit with the uplifting music and the montage of all the diverse members of the Dem party, there is one voting block missing. What happened to the gays? The coffin issue does not violate the Left’s rules, but omitting gays does violate their code of conduct. It would get the nutroots all in a tizzy arguing about the pragmatism of the decision, and it would be fun to hear the excuses made to explain the omission that was probably driven by focus group polling.

Sow a little disagreement in the ranks of the opposition and sit back and watch each side back down and apologize to the other…

The sacrifice of our fightng forces is cheapened when their deaths are used as messages against their good work.

I don’t think that wanting to bring the troops home is necessarily a message “against [the soliders'] good work.” There are many reasons for wanting to bring our soldiers home soon, including:

- you think their mission is accomplished
- you think they’ve done all that can be done
- you don’t think that any further progress that could be made is worth the loss of life

I don’t agree with those reasons, but they’re legitimate reasons and have nothing to do with denigration of the soldiers or their mission.

We have troops in harm’s way receiving little or no praise for their efforts and in some cases, denigration is what they hear. Displying flag draped coffins is a continuation of that denigration, to me. Yes, several have given the ultimate sacrifice, more than I would like, but war is war.

As a Veteran myself, I see the difference in displaying destroyed buildings that people died in different than the flag draped coffins as the coffins are being used to minimize the great sacrifices and good works our troops are performing. They deserve praise, not used as pawns in the left’s anti-war rhetoric.

Had the Democrats used footage showing support of our troops or their good accomplishments, it wouldn’t bother me near as much. The sacrifice of our fightng forces is cheapened when their deaths are used as messages against their good work.

At least, that’s how I see it.

I actually don’t have much of a problem with either. They’re honest images… this isn’t like that LBJ one with the little girl and the nuke. The images have to do with a core issue for the party (security against terrorism for Republicans, a faster exit from Iraq for Democrats). My reaction is about the same as when pro-abortion people complain about anti-abortion protesters showing pictures of aborted fetuses. If you can’t handle the consequences of your position, maybe you should reconsider. While images of dead soldiers or their coffins affect me emotionally, I don’t feel the need to suppress such images. Saddam in Kuwait or with chemical/biological/nuclear weapons is unacceptable, from an economic standpoint, from a national security standpoint and from a human rights standpoint. I supported the effort to kick Saddam out of Kuwait and topple his terrorist regime, and the only responsible follow-up to that action is occupation. If some of our soldiers die in the process, we’ll have to deal with that.

There’s definitely an emphasis on negative news about Iraq and Afghanistan, but the problem there lies in the lack of reporting of good news, not that the bad news hasn’t been suppressed and sanitized.

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The last few days have seen a flurry of outrage expressed by Republicans over a recent Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad which showed an image of the flag-draped coffins of US troops being transported back home (view the ad here).&nbs…

It would reeally be a shocker to ever see them supporting our side.