Shortly before the start of her son’s invasion of Iraq, former first lady Barbara Bush said:
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
Perhaps it was out of concern for the beautiful minds of civilians sitting comfortably back home that the Pentagon banned news photographs of coffins returning from Iraq. If so, it was very thoughtful of them.
It’s probably the same concern for all our beautiful minds that motivated FEMA’s attempt to block the news media from showing us any more dead bodies in New Orleans.
Washington Post writer Terry M. Neal doesn’t seem to appreciate FEMA’s great care to protect his beautiful mind:
Cadavers have a way of raising questions.
When people see them, they wonder, how did they get dead?
When a lot of people see a lot of dead bodies, politicians begin thinking of damage control.
Gosh, do you really suppose this policy is about protecting the Bush Administration? That bodies of Americans killed by government neglect aren’t testing well in Karl Rove’s focus groups?
Could it be that they don’t really care about my beautiful mind?
huitre | 10-Aug-06 at 12:04 pm | Permalink
To be consistent, shouldn’t we be banning media photos of Barbara Bush as well?
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