So here's the thing, is it better to see the war in its entirety like coverage in Vietnam, or is it better for us to be kept from the most gruesome of the images?
I think that a lot of members of the media should be ashamed of how badly this administration teabagged their constitutional freedom of press. But that's only my relatively uninformed conclusion... does your dad know what's up, John?
Also, on only a vaguely related note: Bush went five years without vetoing a bill. The first veto he used was in July 2006, blocking a bill that would lift federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071900524.html
Since then, Bush has apparently used 9 vetoes on such wide ranging topics as: CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) and an Intelligence Bill (partially because it restricted interrogation methods and partially because it did not provide retroactive protection to phone companies who gave up user information). Read the official statements (short: 2-3 pgs) on each veto here: http://www.senate.gov/reference/Legislation/Vetoes/BushGW.htm
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I think that a lot of members of the media should be ashamed of how badly this administration teabagged their constitutional freedom of press. But that's only my relatively uninformed conclusion... does your dad know what's up, John?
Also, on only a vaguely related note: Bush went five years without vetoing a bill. The first veto he used was in July 2006, blocking a bill that would lift federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071900524.html
Since then, Bush has apparently used 9 vetoes on such wide ranging topics as: CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) and an Intelligence Bill (partially because it restricted interrogation methods and partially because it did not provide retroactive protection to phone companies who gave up user information). Read the official statements (short: 2-3 pgs) on each veto here: http://www.senate.gov/reference/Legislation/Vetoes/BushGW.htm
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