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Manix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 02:31 PM
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Dana Milbank: Coffin Coverage Banned
Edited on Tue Oct-21-03 02:36 PM by Manix
Out of sight, Out of mind!!

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White House decides dead soldiers' homecomings make bad press.

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A White House spokesman said Bush has not attended any memorials or funerals for soldiers killed in action during his presidency as his predecessors had done, although he has met with families of fallen soldiers and has marked the loss of soldiers in Memorial Day and Sept. 11, 2001, remembrances.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55816-2003Oct20.html
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jono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 02:33 PM
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1. Link?
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Manix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 02:37 PM
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2. Link there now
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 02:41 PM
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3. He doesn't want to clutter up his mother's 'beautiful mind'
This is a disgrace.
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mark0rama Donating Member (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 02:46 PM
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4. Hey, they blamed Clinton!
Who could have imagined they'd do that? (sarcasm off)

"A Pentagon spokeswoman said the military-wide policy actually dates from about November 2000 - the last days of the Clinton administration - but it apparently went unheeded and unenforced..."
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