In Afghanistan, U.S. Forces Honor Dead with Quiet Ceremony


	In Afghanistan, U.S. Forces Honor Dead with Quiet Ceremony

RiotRanger

6-23-2008 3:05 AM

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afghanistan, angel-ceremony, government, ban, journalists, censorship, blackout, americans, costs

RiotRanger says:

If Bush thinks he is unpopular now; imagine if the American public was able to see the magnitude of war's cost.

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told two Times journalists to leave a ramp ceremony in Kandahar on
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