Ithaca Times: Political Picture

Ithaca Times: "Much of that cost has been hidden by the Bush administration, which has banned photos of flag-draped coffins coming home (even though the Bush campaign uses flag draped corpses at Ground Zero in its political commercials).
President Bush has also refused to attend funerals of the fallen in Iraq.

Moore argues that the movie needs to be seen by the widest possible audience to give the public a glimpse of the reality of war. All told, between the start of war on March 19, 2003 and June 16, 2004, 952 coalition forces were killed, including 836 U.S. military. For more on the hidden cost of war, go online and read this summary (www.ips-dc.org/iraq/costsofwar/) by the Institute for Policy Studies. "