No, not Iraq. New Orleans. The U.S. government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06101601.htm
That's right. The lesson from Vietnam. Limit pictures, limit press. Keep those dead bodies off the nightly news or they'll drive Bush's numbers into single digits. These guys have brass balls, I'll give 'em that. Kill the free press just like they did it in Iraq.
But it may not be so easy this time. This week the press suddenly sat up like a the undead in a cheap horror picture. And however long it was in coming and however unexpected, the real reporting they did was truly welcome. Well, it's never too late according to Bushco and maybe they can still be drowned in the same bathtub with N.O. and big government. Or maybe this time they can't.