Just three weeks ago New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was bashing the Bush administration for what she said was a blatant attempt to cover up American casualties in Iraq by not allowing photos of U.S. war dead.
Complaining that the Bush White House was attempting to hide "the sight of caskets coming home," Clinton told the Center for American Progress, "We should be willing to admit the price that is being paid by these brave young men and women to pursue this policy."
Well, with wall-to-wall U.S. media coverage of the grisly images from Mosul yesterday, where two hero American GI's were shot dead, dragged from their Humvee and had their bodies mutilated by a savage Iraqi mob, Sen. Clinton doesn't have much to complain about anymore - at least not in the photo censorship department.
Ironically, the gruesome scene conjured up immediate comparisons to the 1993 Black Hawk Down fiasco, where the deaths of 19 U.S. Rangers prompted a savage Somali mob to celebrate by dragging two GI corpses through the streets as television cameras rolled.
That imagery prompted President Clinton to cut and run, ordering a full pullout of U.S. troops from the region. Osama bin Laden would later tell interviewers that Clinton's decision to withdraw convinced him that Americans could be attacked with impunity.
Surely Sen. Clinton wouldn't want to see the same kind of negative imagery put pressure on the Bush White House to repeat her husband's disastrous mistake. Or would she?
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