Sunday, February 26, 2006
Bush Defends Ban on War Grief
President Calls on Nation to Forget War's Human Cost
Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:34:18 am
Washington, DC — President Bush on Thursday defended his decision to exclude grief from U.S. war coverage, saying that lost lives and limbs show that the "evildoers still hate us" and thus confirm that we are "on the path of freedom."
The president, making his first appearance at a funeral for Americans killed in Iraq, posed beside a flag draped coffin and claimed that death is "no big deal." Bush's happy-face policy calls for cheerful optimism in the wake of the mounting death toll in Operation Sitting Duck, a deepening war risking the lives of 160,000 of America's finest young men and women. (Full Story)
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On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.