We aren't under martial law in the US, so there is no reason why we shouldn't be seeing the images of the occupation and of the war scenes.

As to the military not allowing themselves to be photographed, that isn't accurate. The military has it's own well controlled propaganda machine, which includes their "official" photographers and journalists, as well as mainstream media's military pool of journalists. The official military journalists are always privleged above those pool journalists, who are privleged above the independent photographers, videographers, and journalists who do not participate in the military pools. It is a well known pecking order.

The military always documents and photographs what they don't allow the citizen journalists to document and photograph. The release of the 350 photos this week proves that. They use theirs for propaganda purposes--and what is more political than military propaganda, Strick?

Or are you going to make some idiotic claim like the US military never engages in propaganda? I hope not, because a good portion of the citizenry just isn't that ignorant any more. Plenty of military folks are though, we do know that.