Hiding the casualties
Thursday, April 7th, 2005 
NPR reports on the elaborate steps the Pentagon has taken to conceal the images of wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq. Some 25,000 have been wounded so seriously that they have had to be flown out of Iraq.
The Pentagon has rearranged its flight schedule so that the wounded arrive stateside late at night, lying to reporters that this is due to “operational restrictions” at the runway in Germany. Interviews with wounded soldiers are restricted to those who provide “good news stories” for the Pentagon.
Apparently the White House spin effort is effective, since most media haven’t even tried to get past Pentagon interference to talk to the wounded.
