Random thoughts on the Ooody Qoosy killings...

[TreasonousBastard]

Sorry if it's been done already, (can't keep up with all the threads)but I'm a bit disgusted with the revelling in their deaths I've been seeing in too many forums. Admittedly, they were scumbags but I don't see why that requires summary execution. A trial by the Iraqis they actually committed their crimes would be far more appropriate. Since "hostilities are over," hunting them down like the dogs they are would seem to be assasination, not justice.

But, now that they're presumably dead, why is Rumpot insisting on putting pix all over TV, where half the Iraqis won't see them anyway because we blew up their TV stations and powerplants?

Wouldn't it make more sense to find a bunch of imams and other locally respected Iraqis and have them in on the autopsy and other evidence? Wouldn't their word carry more weight than the "Alien Autopsy" we're showing?

That is, of course, assuming that we actually have evidence they would believe.

[w13rd0]

1. Maybe Chalabi is available to confirm the killings...

...the Iraqi people trust him, right? I mean, he is part of that council of 25 that will issue recommendations on what Constitution should be written...

[Born_a_Democrat]

2. Actually

I kinda revelled in it for a short bit...I have to admit the war is over and all but boy talk about an eye for an eye...Nobody (except maybe Daddy) deserves it more than they do...

As for Chalabi....he's spent more time in England than he has in Iraq and has been "hand-picked" by the Pentagon...which is why the people don't trust him. To the people of Iraq, his confirmation of the dead bodies will be about the same as my dog barking when I say "SPEAK"...

[WildClarySage]

3. And of course, there's

that whole Jordanian embezzlement charge

[TahitiNut]

4. I'm a bit ambivalent about showing such pictures.

I detest the media sterilization of war and carnage. Some would contend that showing such pictures works against this. While there's a point there, it's really not enough to merely view a neatly cropped photo -- without smelling the stench and seeing it in 3D before the blood dries. I'd be more in favor of a hand-held video, quite frankly, while the blood is still flowing red. Would the carrion-eaters revel in it? Probably. Might it desensitize some people? Possibly. But selective publications of only some carefully cropped photos just is more likely to produce the latter results than a no-holds-barred publication of videos of such carnage -- of 'coilition' troops, innocent Iraqi civilians, and combatants both alleged and actual. Show it all in dead, bloody color. People deserve to see what's happening in their names.