Since Vietnam, presidents have been concerned (and rightfully so) that their military antics would lose support once the public started to see the bodies of US soldiers arriving home in flag-draped caskets.
The Bush administration installed a simple solution: It ended the public boradcast of those images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings.
Well, thanks Matt Drudge, and screw the Bushies. This is the price we're paying for the Bush/Cheney fixation on Iraq:
PS - the person who originally took those photos has lost her job.
