Newflash: soldiers use profanity.
However, in America, don't expect to see that on your t.v. PBS has to censor a documentary about the war, because, the soldiers use swear words, the LA Times reports.
The producers of a "Frontline" documentary about U.S. combat troops in Iraq on Thursday criticized a PBS decision to send member stations an edited satellite feed of the program that cut out profanity used by soldiers.This is out of control. Congress talks a good game about supporting the troops. The right-wingers talk a good game about supporting the troops. But, don't let the American people see an uncensored television show about the troops.
It's okay for Cheney to tell Leahy to go fuck himself on the Senate floor, but we have to pretend that American soldiers aren't using that kind of language. If any of the chicken hawks found themselves patrolling the street of Baghdad, they might use an expletive or two. Of course, that's never going to happen.
Cut out the profanity, cut out pictures of coffins of our dead soldiers, cut out any visual images of death and destruction. In the end, the American people have very sanitized view of a war in which there is a lot of death and destruction on both sides.
