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Question: Name/Rank/Serial and Censorship

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  • I know that it's a Geneva convention that all you are REQUIRED to give is Name/Rank/Serial ... but that doesn't mean that you can't give more information if, like it will get on TV or something so that people can see you are there still and relatively ok.

  • @JenjenMrsHlove It is interesting. People see you to see that you are ok (this is true) but you really betray the uniform? Do you feel that the info betrays the uniform and the vow taken to it?

  • I'm old school regarding this. Name rank and serial number and keep your mouth shut. Technically, they weren't prisoners of war so they weren't bound by normal conventions, still... The Iraq war ended with the fall of Saddam. Today it is an occupation of coalition forces resisted by underground militia. I doubt the U.S military will leave for years. Iraq is a convenient aircraft carrier on sand to launch an offensive against Syria and Iran when needed.

  • Exactly! Again, I support our troops but feel we need to bring them all home.

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  • Exactly!! Im tired of how they are hiding some of the most importent things for us! We are the type where we have to see it to believe it. And our news media has been ordered by our President not to show us these thing. I must say, it angers me to no end, not to mention disrespectful for the famlies who have lost love ones for thieir service to this country! Makes me sick actually. :(

  • I too support the troops (and my nephew who's there), but it's all about pride, ego, and hubris at this point. And never admitting a tremendous mistake. Why is Osama still breathing?

  • Love the warrior, hate the war. :)

  • Yes indeed Bree. We need to see. I remember full well what you said about how they wouldn't show arrival of coffins on U.S. soil because it was "disrespectful." What was disrespectful was not acknowledging that sacrifce that took their lives.

  • So true, my friend, so true. Everything you said is true. I fully support the troops but it's been four years now.

  • I agree with Wayne here! Its all about money and oil, we needed an excuse to get into a war with Iraq. As far as seeing images on the war. I think we need to see them. Its the old out of site out of mind thing. Most americans don't want to see it, because than you would have to deal with what we are doing as a country! The media has been told to not show returning caskets. This is very concerning. :(

  • I agree totally with this, Wayne.  Ugly truth is realism, regardless of consequences.

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