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Title: Military to Avoid Embarrassing Pictures by Banning Photography Photos 'Only for Official Purposes,' General Warns
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URL Source: http://news.antiwar.com/2012/05/25/ ... ctures-by-banning-photography/
Published: May 26, 2012
Author: Jason Ditz, May 25, 2012
Post Date: 2012-05-26 09:07:49 by tom007
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Military to Avoid Embarrassing Pictures by Banning Photography Photos 'Only for Official Purposes,' General Warns by Jason Ditz, May 25, 2012 Print This | Share This It sounds like the punchline of a bad joke, but after years of dealing with photographs of troops torturing prisoners, desecrating corpses and generally behaving badly, commanders in southwestern Afghanistan have announced that they are going to solve the problem by banning photography. The command, which covers some 36,000 troops including 15,800 US Marines, announced that troops will only be allowed to take photographs for “official purposes,” and will no longer be taking “happy snaps,” apparently the official name for pictures like those showing US Marines urinating on corpses in the nation. “This isn’t rocket science,” noted Gen. Charles Gurganus, who emphasized that taking pictures of the various atrocities committed on the ground “can undermine the war effort.” Though the move will avoid these embarrassing moments for the administration, in many cases the photographic evidence of war crimes collected by the war criminals themselves are materially the only way they are ever discovered.
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That is the real point. Evil hates Truth. Criminals???? Damn... We hire them, we pay them to kill or be killed and they are the criminals????? After WW2 we hung the generals and the leaders at the top, something wrong with this picture.
Hung Japanese for waterboarding. Because they were War Criminals. Never in my long life have I seen so many people ready and willing to sacrifice and or hang the lowly grunts. Our culture has changed for the worse when we went to a paid killer military. Hire some one to go so I wont have to, then deny all responsibility for their actions.
I wonder how they plan to enforce this new rule. Fear factor?
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's Handmaiden
We'll import Jewish North Koreans to be instructors to the FBI. Then we'll be safe. Seems the "War Effort" is eroding support for the War Effort. Gotta keep killing people so General G won't have to work at Ace Hardware. Though the move will avoid these embarrassing moments for the administration, in many cases the photographic evidence of war crimes collected by the war criminals themselves are materially the only way they are ever discovered.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#2. To: tom007 (#1)
the photographic evidence of war crimes collected by the war criminals themselves
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
After WW2 we hung the generals and the leaders at the top,
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#4. To: tom007 (#3)
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
#6. To: tom007 (#0)
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#5)
I wonder how they plan to enforce this new rule. Fear factor?
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
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“This isn’t rocket science,” noted Gen. Charles Gurganus, who emphasized that taking pictures of the various atrocities committed on the ground “can undermine the war effort.”
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
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