Pentagon mulls showing photos of Saddam's dead sons

JaneQPublic

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:42 PM
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Pentagon mulls showing photos of Saddam's dead sons

Unbelievable. At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if Bush orders the heads put on stakes and paraded around in the town square.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&e=23&u=/afp/20030723/pl_afp/us_iraq_sons_photos_030723153559

US military officials considered whether to show photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, an official said.

"They're probably gruesome but we have to show it," to convince the Iraqi people that the two feared men are in fact dead the official said.

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NYC

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:45 PM
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1. Adobe Photoshop.

Edited on Wed Jul-23-03 03:46 PM by NYC

Iraqis must have or be familiar with Photoshop. Why would photographs convince them?

Edit: We've already seen photoshopped photographs that were taken in Iraq.

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underpants

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:48 PM
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2. Huh?--"not aware we will have any photographs of the bodies."

Terry Mitchell, a defense official responsible for Pentagon (news - web sites) visuals, said the issue was being discussed but he was "not aware we will have any photographs of the bodies."

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DoYouEverWonder

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:50 PM
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3. Rummie's still trying to figure out

how to merge layers and to use an airbrush tool.

Give the guy a break, he's almost 80 years old.

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amish_enforcer

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:56 PM
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5. LOL

Yeah, for the uninitiated photoshop is a little much to absorb quickly

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slackmaster

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:50 PM
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4. Well, what the fuck are they waiting for?

Enough teasers already. I've always wanted to see what 10 TOW missles do to people.

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skypilot

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:56 PM
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6. Wasn't there just a report...

...saying that the bodies were too "shot up" to identify. What would be the point of photographs then?

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maxanne

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Wed Jul-23-03 04:05 PM
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8. yesterday they were burned

today shot up.

Sounds like the Jessica Lynch sequence of injuries.

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GreatCaesarsGhost

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Wed Jul-23-03 03:56 PM
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7. the results of the focus group

perhaps.

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Outvoicer

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Wed Jul-23-03 04:17 PM
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9. Why kill them if they could provide intel on WMDs?

Edited on Wed Jul-23-03 04:17 PM by Outvoicer

It seems blatantly political to me that the Adminstration is more interested in scoring points than finding out needed information.

By immediately targeting Saddam's sons for assassination, the Bush administration automatically denies itself two very wealthy sources of information regarding WMDs.

Hmmm.

Why not surround them a la Manuel Noriega until they can be captured alive.

Clearly, this administration is more interested in theatrics - "We killed the bad guys" - than in finding WMDs.

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ZenLefty

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Wed Jul-23-03 04:56 PM
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10. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=30522&mesg_id=30522&page=

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