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Isn't anyone ****** off that the US has released pictures of Saddam's sons corpses?
maybe we should put their bodies on public display in Baghdad.
No objections to that.
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
I can´t say If they are it,
the Beard changes the appearance a lot.
So I´ll wait to see if it is really true (especially the DNA-Analysis might be revealing)
(although I tend to believe it is true)
But after all I think that many Iraquis (especcially his followers) might not be convinced.
As for Publishing of the Photos I have no problems with it, but as other people mentioned, the USA now has lost their rights to complain about other warfaring parties which publish Photos of their dead enemies
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve." Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
I'm not denying it's them, the dental check seems to show that quite well, but I still say the pictures (as shown on CNN for example) wouldn't convince anyone that wasn't already pretty sure it was them in the first place.
To show the pictures of dead bodies (whoever they are!) in public is disgusting and given the opportunities of computer aided retouching it proves nothing except the low culture of those who show it. The DNA analysis by independent specialists is a far better method to credibly prove their identity. That said, I'm still glad that they were deservedly killed, although i'm a bit disappointed, that the US military was unable to catch them alive and give them to the only authority to judge their crimes, the people of Iraq.
Another possible message of these pictures is "Look what will happen to you, if you continue to resist the occupation of Iraq".
To be honset, in this day and age there really is no reason to believe a picture shown to you. You see a picture of Marylin Monroe canoodling with Elvis, you don't assume they've been ressurected do you?
Once again in this thread there seem to be people who are taking some form of delight or other in the deaths of people. It doesn't matter if someone's the most evil bastard in the world, you don't rejoice at their death - it's just sick
Al-Jazeera were lambasted by the US for showing pictures of dead Coalition soldiers during the war. How is this any different?
Yup, hypocritical bs, which is nothing new from the US.
Because one was proving to the Iraqi people that they don't need to fear the two sons anymore, and the other was shameless bragging?
You do realise that you can actually reverse that statement and it still applies as much?
To show the pictures of dead bodies (whoever they are!) in public is disgusting
How so?
I have no serious doubts to the claim that US forces killed two sons of Saddam Hussein, mainly because I think it has very little relevance to the situation in Iraq. What would they gain if they lied?
Oh , yes. I'm so sad over this tragedy.
My heart pumps purple panther piss for them.
Not! I expect they're roasting in Hell, and I'm glad they're there.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Those were people who were killed. Maybe it is better they're dead - but if you're rejoicing in anything it should be at the fact that the regime has been changed, not that these lives have ended.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
To be honest it's things like this that show us how little times have changed and no side has any total moral highground over the other.
We find it appalling that we used to put the heads of defeated leaders on pikes, yet we do things like this.
Maybe I am too much the idealist - but I could never find any joy in the death of anyone.
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