Dead men can advance no further (deconstructed news)

Unacceptability 2003 is yet
Another and another cargo
Of coffins. Thresholds too low.
A more durable lesson?
No cheering Iraqi crowds,
Expectations unfulfilled,
The cameras and reporters
Gathered to chronicle easy victory.
How many body bags can we take?
The first ten dead, draped in the flag,
Pavilioned in the rituals of sorrow.
What the heart sees, the heart grieves.
No mass defection