Quote Originally Posted by Maximus View Post
It's too bad that stories like this one are tucked away in the Washington Post. All the more reason why we need to let our warriors speak. The internet gives us the option to go on the offensive with IO, but not if we create policies that leave us permanently in react mode.
From this article I'm really unclear who you see as the IO target... the Democrats? Congress? American voters?

This also isn't a case of letting warriors speak, but rather families doing so, so as to influence domestic political debates.

From a political PR/campaign point-of-view, I'm not sure how successful it would be at all--I would suspect that for every member of the target audience who increased their support for Administration Iraq policy as a result of the photo op and sound bites, another saw it as cynical political manipulation of military casualties and was turned off.