The Bush administration has had few real successes in Iraq. Capturing Saddam Hussein was one. And keeping the real cost of the war from Americans has been another.
A Pentagon policy has spared the war’s supporters the sight of flag-draped coffins coming home: “There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Delaware] base, to include interim stops.”
But an activist wielding an Access to Information request managed to pry some of those images loose from the U.S. military’s hands. The result: an online gallery, and a sobering reminder of what happens when glib ideologues control your foreign policy.
And to those on the Canadian right wing who complained so vocally last year that Canada should be sending troops to Iraq as well — not so much because it was a good idea, but because it would endear us to the Bush administration — these pictures serve as a silent but overwhelming refutation.
