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Army backs away from HBO war documentary

Army backs away from HBO war documentary

RAW STORY
Published: Saturday May 13, 2006

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The Army is backing away from an HBO war documentary called Baghdad E.R. due to fears that it may demoralize troops and "negatively affect public opinion about the war," according to a story in the New York Times, RAW STORY has found.
Excerpts from the article written by Edward Wyatt:

Two senior Army officers, who were granted anonymity to publicly discuss the private deliberations of Army leaders, said the secretary of the Army, Francis J. Harvey, had declined to attend the screening by HBO, scheduled for Monday night at the National Museum of American History in Washington.

High-ranking military officers, including Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, who is the Army chief of staff, and Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, the surgeon general of the Army, had been expected to attend the screening but now will not, people involved in preparations for the event said.

The documentary, titled "Baghdad E.R.," chronicles two months at the 86th Combat Support Hospital, where filmmakers were given broad access to follow doctors, nurses, medics and others as they treated soldiers wounded by roadside bombs and in combat. As one nurse, Spc. Saidet Lanier, says in the film: "This is hard-core, raw, uncut trauma. Day after day, every day."
 
 

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