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Obama Makes Overnight Trip to Meet Fallen Soldiers
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama flew late Wednesday night to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to meet the flag-draped burial cases of 18 American military personnel killed in Afghanistan this week. The solemn, midnight visit was the president's first trip to the Dover base, where the remains of American soldiers are brought from abroad. Obama is in the midst of mulling major strategy decisions about the war in Afghanistan, including whether or not to increase the number of U.S. forces. October has been the deadliest month for American forces there since the war began eight years ago. After the president's ...
Obama Administration to Allow Photographs of War Dead
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Pentagon said today that it will lift the ban on media photographers covering the repatriation ceremonies for American war dead at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. President Barack Obama had asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review the policy, which was first put in place prior to the first Gulf War in 1991 by President George H. W. Bush, earlier this month. Supporters of the ban say that media coverage of the solemn ceremonies only serves to politicize American war casualties, while opponents argue that the lack of media coverage hides the true cost of the war from the public.Most ...
President Obama Considering Lifting Ban on Photographing War Dead
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon to review the ban on news media coverage of repatriation ceremonies for the nation's returning war dead at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The ban was put in place by President George H. W. Bush in the run up to the first Gulf War in 1991 and has remained in effect for the entire 18 years since. During the Iraq War, anti-war groups and opponents of President George W. Bush's policies in the war on terror agitated to have the ban lifted. They charged that the Bush Administration was using the coverage ban to shield the public from the true cost ...
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