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Originally posted by _Q_
I agree that turning this into an anti-Bush political rally would be abhorrent. However, I think there's another issue here.
Someone told me that years ago, the Prussian king had to ride out into the field after every war and look at the faces of the dead. We're not comfortable with this. Al-Jazeera's Baghdad office gets shut down for showing disturbing images, and there's a flap when coffins of returning soldiers are photographed. In the movie "Control Room," someone says, "Every war has a human cost." We should never forget this.
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We as Americans are not comfortable with seeing death ever whether it is woman who was murdered by her husband, a child who was beaten to death by a parent or a soldier who was blown up in Iraq. We are not in denial of what is going on. Some of just don't think it is respectful to show those kinds of things on TV. You could argue that coffins are ok, but the disturbing images - not necessary.
What does this have to do with the vigil anyway? Are they going to be showing distrubing pictures of all the dead soldiers? There is nothing wrong with holding a vigil for these men but what gives moveon.org the right to host it. They clearly are doing it for political gain.