"Let me try again: But their suppression as a political act of pro-war propaganda is just fine, right?"

If they were hiding the deaths or fudging the numbers I might accept it as propaganda. This is just drawing a line. Photos of the post-mortems of each of these soldiers also exist. I know no one here is asking they be published, but given what we're seeing all around us, someone will try. The National Military Family Association thinks not showing the photos is the better choice. Many families agree.

More than making politics out of the photos is my revulsion at trying to make political points out of someone else's misery. It's worse than rejoicing when unemployment numbers are higher or gloating when another soldier dies. You want pain to justify your political position. To hell with the pain of the people it affects, you just want to proof you were right. That's all there is to it.