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The bush administration has found a way to make poster-children out of it's fallen soldiers. Even in death they don't get a choice of their last message. The administration has now decided that the tombstones in Arlington should now bear a propaganda message, inscribing the markers with slogans like "operation enduring freedom" or "operation Iraqi freedom". This started with the war in Afghanistan, and is continuing today. Nice fucking propaganda...

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it isn't. ''The headstone is not a PR purpose. It is to let the country know and the people that visit the cemetery know who served this country and made the country free for us,'' VA official Steve Muro said.

Funny isn't it how someone can contradict themselves so blatantly.

The family is supposed to be offered the opportunity to dictate what goes on the stone, but in many cases they aren't.

Nadia and Robert McCaffrey, whose son Patrick was killed in Iraq in June 2004, said ''Operation Iraqi Freedom'' ended up on his government-supplied headstone in Oceanside, Calif., without family approval.

''I was a little taken aback,'' Robert McCaffrey said, describing his reaction when he first saw the operation name on Patrick's tombstone. ''They certainly didn't ask my wife; they didn't ask me.'' He said Patrick's widow told him she had not been asked either.

Well, even I'm impressed. I suppose if there were an opportunity to tattoo babies as they were being born with pro-government messages the administration would jump all over that as well.

Sick motherfuckers, just sick.
Leave the dead alone ok? They already did their job for you...