Here is a lesson from the neocons at Fox and elsewhere.  If you cover up a war rather than covering it and refuse to show the direct results of conflict then you are a patriot.

Let us say that someone chooses to cover that same war and shows the bloodshed that resulted.  To do so is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.  In fact, such coverage should be immediately shut down.

This is precisely the scenario that occurred in the Iraq War.  This was Donald Rumsfeld's "shock and awe" war that was supposed to inflict casualties only on the troops of dictator Saddam Hussein, the same figure that Rumsfeld visited, shook hands with, and provided weapons with which he killed his own Kurdish population.

Now the neocons of the New World Order decided that it was time to rid Iraq of former ally Saddam so that profits would not have to be shared and Halliburton, Bechtel and Monsanto would have unrestrained pickings.  In fact, the division of spoils was decided in advance through secret meetings in former Halliburton head man and then Vice President Dick Cheney's office.

Al-Jazeera has published the graphic images from the Italian video from the Fallujah offensive. They have also published a DU image as well. Many people today do not understand the graphic nature of war today. We have lived a sheltered life, and have not known the meaning of human suffering. The media treats it like a big video game, as does the Bush administration.

The Vietnam War ended because people came to understand the graphic nature of warfare. The Pentagon and the Bush administration know this well. Therefore, they do all they can to sanitize war news with fake stories like Jessica Lynch or Pat Tillman.

Today, I will do my small part to change that. Please distribute these pictures as widely as possible, especially to your right-wing friends. Maybe then, we will effect some change.