Video of bodies now being shown on various news sites....

[Jester23]

MSNBC has it free (need Media Player)...CNN has it but you have to be a subscriber.

The faces have been reconstructed and the bodies have been cleaned up. Definitely looks like Udai (Uday) now...

http://msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA01

[Gordon]

Isn't this meant to be sick or something along those lines ... OK, they weren't being dragged around a town or anything but remember all the s**t that was caused in the media by the showing of a dead coalition soldier on Al-Jazeera, they were absolutely roasted for that. Just a thought.

[stuntman]

remember we make the rules! woot

[USAF G]

It was a fairly contrversial decision, but one that was made in order to convince the Iraqi people that the sons of Saddam are really dead. I for one think it makes sense, and we aren't dragging them through the streets, or posing them. Just my two cents. G

[spier]

I don't mind what they did, but I think it will backfire on the Americans. Just imagine the "omfg, how uncivilized" conversations going on in every Iraqi home right now..

[USAF G]

Well, it's a lose lose situation. Either, we didn't kill them and the populus goes on believing they may come back to power, or we are uncivilized barbarians who martred them. :(

[spier]

Well, it's a lose lose situation. Either, we didn't kill them and the populus goes on believing they may come back to power, or we are uncivilized barbarians who martred them. :(Hm, I don't think so. More like a "bad option #1" and "worse option #2" situation, and the Americans picked #2.

Many Iraqis still don't belive that the Hussain brothers are dead - especially since the US already admitted that they fixed up the corpses a bit - and now they got another argument to use against the occupational forces: They are barbarians.

That's how I see it anyway.

[budanski]

I don't mind what they did, but I think it will backfire on the Americans. Just imagine the "omfg, how uncivilized" conversations going on in every Iraqi home right now..

I dont see what the big deal is really. Throughout the whole war, Al-Jazeera was broadcasting gruesome images of the bombardments and 2 years of the Palestinian Intifada. I doubt showing 2 dead corpes made up for the camera is gonna offend them.

FYI: Time/Life magazine ran many images of the dead during WW2.

[Gordon]

I think the images should probably have been shown throughout Iraq in order to convince the Iraqi's they were dead, as happened. I'm sure they're used to seeing dead bodies on the Middle Eastern channels and the arguments that affect the west probably haven't even been mentioned around there.


Throughout the whole war, Al-Jazeera was broadcasting gruesome images of the bombardments and 2 years of the Palestinian Intifada.

For real and look at all the grief this caused in the west about how uncivilized it was etc, etc, etc ... doesn't it seem kind of hypocritical to now turn round and say "well they did it so why shouldn't we" ... kind of detracts from any previous argument.

Anyway, just a thought, I don't disagree with them showing the images it just seems the kind of situation where you have one rule for us and one rule for them but then as stuntman said:


remember we make the rules! woot