posted September 05, 2009 03:14 AM         

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/afghan_death_ap_photo

posted September 05, 2009 12:40 PM         

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posted September 05, 2009 02:44 PM         

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posted September 05, 2009 06:47 PM         

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The picture, by AP photographer Julie Jacobson, showed Lance Cpl. Joshua "Bernie" Bernard, 21, lying on the ground with severe leg injuries after being struck by a grenade in an ambush on Aug. 14, his fellow Marines tending to him. Bernard later died of his wounds.

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posted September 05, 2009 08:12 PM         

i don't think it's necessarily mercenary motives that led to this story and picture being put out...

posted September 06, 2009 11:10 AM         

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Jorge Ruiz of Glendale, Ariz., said he and other ex-Marines had often talked about the sanitation of war and the social implications of a lack of images showing what war is really like."

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posted September 06, 2009 03:02 PM         

The only silver lining is all this is that these self appointed guardian elitists of the "publics' right to know" are held in contempt by a large majority of Americans who to put it mildly...do not trust them.

The Pew Poll found the Associated Press is not trusted to tell readers the truth...to a greater degree than even the NY Times.

Only 21% believed all or even most of what the Times prints. But...
only 19% believe all or even most of what the AP prints as news.

They are a sorry bunch of a-holes and this episode into breach of privacy...not to mention the pain they caused the family members only serves to highlight the lengths they will go to further their political agenda.

It's also not surprising to see the AP defended by fellow traveling leftists who are on the same road.

posted September 06, 2009 06:20 PM         

You're the one with multiple psychological disorders. You really should get yourself checked in for some psychological help.

I'm sure you see nothing wrong in the AP promoting their anti-war ideology. In this case, they're not only outrageously contemptible but so far across the lines as to be out of touch with the public they insist they serve.

This is part of the bunch of leftist nuts who harassed Sarah Palin and intruded on her daughters privacy for a year now...but who see nothing hypocritical in laying off O'Bomber's girls...totally, not so much as a picture.

But, it's OK for these dip wads to invade the privacy of a dying soldier, print a picture of his final moments on earth...and all against the wishes of his family.

Let's just say you're in the right "phew" acoustic....you too katatonic. Oh, and I meant to say "phew" and not "pew".

posted September 06, 2009 06:45 PM         

i am sure these ex-marines quoted are not hard-line leftists, just men who actually experienced what this story is supposed to educate us on...

what's with the multiple "phews"? have you got asthma or did you just walk up the hill in your town? you know, the 37-foot one?

posted September 06, 2009 08:35 PM         

Those Marines you quote have nothing whatsoever to say in the matter of privacy in a family matter that has nothing to do with them. It's simply none of their business.

Now katatonic I'll bet my last dollar the press would have been outraged if photographers or nurses had snapped a picture of Peter Jennings, Bob Novak or Tim Russert as they drew their last breath...and posted the picture on youtube...or put the pictures up for sale on Ebay....so would the families and hundreds of millions of Americans across the country.

But, the American press are supreme hypocrites.

I'm waiting for the day some rich guy sics an army of private detectives on their sorry a$$es to uncover all their private matters...and posts the reports on youtube or some other venue.

posted September 06, 2009 09:14 PM         

what is private about being a GI? which stands for Government Issue?

just as "pirates of the caribbean" makes a romp and laughingstock of what pirates were really about, most people have NO IDEA what war is really like. it's a sad fact that pictures like that shouldn't have to be shown, people should understand without seeing them, but it's a very vague concept in most people's minds.

my apologies to the military and their wives if this sounds like an anti-military rant. it's an anti-hypocrisy rant. there are many good and intelligent and aware people in the military. and many of them are there trying to make a clean end of a bad situation, while supporting their mates as best they can.

but you don't have to be a "leftist" to be antiwar. check out the politics of the mothers in northern ireland who stood up against the fighting.

why did they? because they were in the middle of it watching the reality of war.

posted September 06, 2009 11:16 PM         

I seriously doubt you really believe much in liberty or freedom. No one who would vote for O'Bomber with their eyes wide open possibly could.

As for your anti-military rants, we've heard all that tripe before and it changes nothing. These anti-military rants do nothing to obscure the reality that the United States military is the most trusted institution in the United States...by everyone who is not a leftist.

Your condescending tone is getting tiresome. Our military is a professional collection of military services. Your insinuation that they join for romantic reasons is hogwash as is your contention that they have no idea they might lose their lives fighting for the foreign policies of the United States.

Your nonsense smacks of the ludicrous statements of Rangel and the traitor John Kerry that these young people have no other options and that they're stupid. That's far from the truth as studies prove our military personnel are far from uneducated and in fact they are educated beyond the average American.

As for tuition credits for military service, there's no false advertising there. Service personnel get exactly what they are offered.

The difference between military service personnel and leftists is that military personnel are willing to work for their tuition and leftists want theirs handed to them free and for nothing.

posted September 06, 2009 11:34 PM         

you are entitled to your opinion. as i am mine. your gross misreading of my motives says more about you than it does me. once again.

posted September 08, 2009 01:49 PM         

What is it you don't understand about the right to privacy for this soldier and his family members who made their wishes well known to the Associated Press.

Just between you and me katatonic, I've had more than enough of the pukes in the main stream media who believe they are somehow privileged characters and can do nothing wrong.

If I were a family member of this dead soldier, I'd demand the AP show me the release signed by this soldier or someone in my family..to release this photo into the newspapers.