What brain dead idiot decided to release those photos

[rhino91063]

Pretty powerful images. They will do one of two things when people see them, inflame rage or invoke horror. Neither one is good things to be invoking in people around the world and expecially in Iraq and the Mid East.

[molly]

1. KKKRove?

on edit - there is a pug theory that all we need to do now is get Saddam and everything will be OK - the "war" will end - the troops will come home - yada yada yada

[Not a robought]

4. Just like how America is a much safer place

after the immediate threat Iraq posed to American national security is now gone. :eyes:

[molly]

7. This is REALLY going to backfire

[rhino91063]

9. You are right

This is not the late 1800s and this is not the old west. Pictures of the dead are no longer appropriate. Kind of hard to sell to the Iraqis that we came in peace and friendship, when we show them pictures of their people in pieces.

[oneighty]

11. Yes. rhino91063

The Dalton Boys come to mind. These guys running our country are guilty of necrophilism. Perverts, one and all!

180

[ArkDem]

2. Standard fare

for the mideast.

[gasperc]

3. oh, man I got the entire administration to chose from

Rummy,no no, Wolfy, no no , Rice, nah, Rove hmmm, the faceless, nameless dufus that gets blamed for all the bad intelligence, nah, oh fuck I give up

[SuffragetteSal]

5. children watch tv also

I guess 'they' the conservatives want to protect their children from nudity and sex and liberal ways, but is somehow alright to show murdered brown people for all to see.

PS: DNA?

[molly]

6. Yep - remember the outrage about what Clinton did

now they had to tell their children about sex?

[htuttle]

8. Children have a right to see this

After all, their generation is going to be paying for most of it.

[jagguy]

10. I recall posts here saying they needed pix before they believed it

but I doubt we can take all the credit/blame for it.

Glass houses people, remember that...

[w4rma]

16. We simply shouldn't have invaded Iraq in the first place

Many Iraqis weren't believing Bush (he's not known for his honesty), so they had to release the photos, but at the same time those photos gives Americans a peek into the gruesome war that we are in.

Unfortunately, I think things are going to get more gruesome with these sociopaths in power.

[The_Gopher]

12. RUMMY just took the credit for it in the press conference

he said he was the one who made the decision. said it was a tough decision, but they he started talking about what a great decision it was, and he sure seems proud.

[ShaneGR]

13. Herr Rumsfeld of course

Who else? He's the Secretary of Defense... he admitted so much during the press conference.

[rhino91063]

19. He did not just admit it, he seems proud of it

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By Charles Aldinger

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday defended his decision to release photographs of the bullet-torn bodies of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s two sons, saying, "I'm glad I made it."

[Hanuman]

14. Those photos aren't for you.

They're to convince / assure the Iraqi people that the two mass murdering thugs that have oppressed them for so long are dead- and that now the people may feel a little safer, i.e. not have to worry about being raped, tortured and murdered or that these guys will ever rise back to power.

Duh.

[Jacobin]

15. How noble of us

Care to guesstimate the number of civilians we killed in GWI, GWII and the twelve years of sanctions when they couldn't get food or medicine. And then compare it to the Saddam atrocities?

And those pics, don't you imagine getting a lot of Shrub supporters all hot and bothered for the upcoming deer season...laying them out like trophies?

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:OE96SzlcBqMC:


It's sick and disgusting and this country is now officially crazed. Apparently too impatient for war crimes tribunals...but of course the question is: who do you put on trial along with the Hussein boys, Rumfilled, Cheney, Smirk, Wolfowitz, Powell, Kristol, and Perle?

[rhino91063]

18. So they will simply be raped or murdered by the street thugs

The US has allowed to run free. They also have the new risk of being gunned down, in the streets. I hope that "duh" was one of sarcasism and not indicative of your IQ.

[jagguy]

20. as opposed to the Baathist thugs ?

oh yeah, they're one in the same !

[Hanuman]

21. You win.

My low IQ bows in humble deference to your superior IQ.

[retread]

22. So the electricity is back on and everyone has a T.V. now??

*

[blm]

17. The ones covering up the 9-11 report and Wilson story.

That must be a fulltime job.

[robbedvoter]

23. Go to mediawhoresonline. Pretty good editorial on W's diplomatic

genius in that decision. See here, the bushco has a personal thang with the Saddams - a vendetta, you see? bushco scored, and we are their territory, so we are supposed to dance in the streets now...

[DemBones DemBones]

24. I watch news programs from the Middle East on World Link TV and

can verify that bodies of victims of war and associated violence are shown on television in that region.

On an Iraqi news program last night, Iraqis interviewed were saying they wanted to see the bodies of Usay and Quday on television. Some also said they were sorry/ angry that the Hussein brothers hadn't been captured alive so they could be made to suffer. One man said he had hoped to see them in small cages in the zoo. It was suggested that Saddam should be taken alive.

[maggrwaggr]

25. the U.S. had no choice but to show photos

How else to prove they're dead?

I agree with the "duh". It's not like the Iraqis are gonna believe a DNA test, they probably don't even know what that is.

Or dental records? give me a break.

But I wonder if the Iraqi people have heard of PHOTOSHOP.