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Originally Posted by cthulu23
I wasn't using the quotes as a direct attribution to you, rather, I was using them to signify that I don't agree with the emotional thrust. Perhaps that is confusing, so I'll try another signifier in the future.
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Good, because I don't like being inaccurately quoted.
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Originally Posted by cthulu23
How do you know that the families of the deceased disagree with the picture? Some may hate it, but all we have so far are assumptions.
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I live in a town where US Special Forces are trained. One personal friend of mine ran Operation K-Bar in Afghanistan. Another received a Purple Heart in Baghdad recently. A third is the head of the Special Warfare School here, and he makes a point of personally delivering the news of the death of men in his command to the families.
Having discussed the matter with him, I'm comfortable in saying that many military families (and I'd venture to say MOST active duty service members) think we're doing the right thing in Iraq, even though they have their complaints, and would prefer not to be there. My conversations with him also make me confident in stating that many of the families resent (or would resent, if they became aware of it) the use of pictures of their deceased relative in anti-war statements.
I'd say they probably feel about like Elizabeth Edwards would if someone told her she deserves cancer, because her husband got rich unjustly suing physicians.
Got a problem with that? Is it time to parse the word "okay" again?