censorship
tami silicio, an american employee of a military contractor, ie war profiteer, in kuwait was fired this week, along with her husband, when the seattle times published a photograph she had taken of a cargo plane full of coffins draped in american flags. while they theory behind the policy of the department of defence seems to be that pictures of coffins of members of the armed services are intrusive or upsetting to mourning families, it's certainly implemented in order to reduce the impact of large numbers of flag-draped coffins on a public which was lied to regarding the reasons for the attack, invasion and occupation of iraq and who now is being asked to risk the lives of thousands more troops and come up with millions upon millions of addtional dollars to sink into the quagmire.
photo: the seattle times/afp.
