"touched up photos" of Uday and Qusay - Wash Post article

[RandomKoolzip]

I just saw this post on another thread but I think it deserves a KICK: Us troops used reconstruction putty to make the corpses look more like Saddam's sons...This is in the WASHINGTON POST. Yah.


the bodies were 'touched up'...an unheard of practice in the ME, that will just lead to further questions.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44930-2003Jul25?language=printer

[Walt Starr]

1. There will be Iraqis who yesterday believe it was Udai and Qusai

but no longer believe ti today after this release.

We are running the Moran(sic) School of Foreign Policy these days...

[NJCher]

2. un-frickin' believable

And such an American thing to do, too!


Cher

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Sorry, forgot to give credit to Maple for this post...

Maple (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-25-03 03:48 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. It's just been admitted


Thank you Maple for the info....this could be very bad for the Bush team!

[Eat_The_Rich]

4. Doubles

Saddam has known body doubles, why not the kids?

[Brian Sweat]

16. They had know body doubles too.

[retread]

5. They needed to "touch them up" to eliminate the

freezer burn!!

[chiburb]

6. Then there was this:

"A U.S. military official said they had undergone some post-mortem facial reconstruction -- standard practice they said, not an attempt to deceive the Iraqi people. There was no sign that either of them had committed suicide, they added. snip


"The two bodies have undergone facial reconstruction with morticians putty to make them resemble as closely as possible the faces of the brothers when they were alive," a U.S. military official said. "

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=33703&mesg_id=33703&page=




The lives of a farmer, the lives of a doctor should be running parallel. Shrewd politicians meet wealthy morticians, do they really burn in hell? "Spring Wind", Shawn Phillips+

[efhmc]

7. The whole thing makes me so sick.

eom

[Rollins]

8. why would they do this?

Just makes no sense. If these are not the actual bodyies of the sons word would leak out. Truth has a way of slipping thorugh the cracks. Wonder if there is an even deeper reason they were made up? The Bush regime has created a fantasy the resistance is made up of a few Saddam holdouts when in fact it is at least 7 different groups and counting. As long as there is the idea that Iraqis are scared to join the Americans Bush has an excuse for the Iraqi people not jumping onboard. The 'unsure Iraqi people' and the 'possible body double' idea floating around can keep that fantasy going.

However if we for sure got Saddam and his family yet the fighting continued what excuse would Bush have?

[arcane1]

9. "the move is unheard of in the Arab world" So...

how were they able to get ahold of mortician's putty in less than 24 hours? Don't even TRY to tell me it's standard military equipment!

and where did they get the dental records, etc?? :shrug:

[prolesunited]

10. How dare you ask such questions, citizen!

Would the Great Bush lie to us? Move along. Nothing to see here. ;-)

[arcane1]

14. ah, the great bush, question him not!

:hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Planning. planning, planning.

you don't think the guys who did this knew ahead of time they were gonna do it? It was just a spur-of-the-moment, spontaneous, "aw, why not?" kinda move? Come on, man.

[donsu]

12. perhaps they got the dental records the same place they got the

exrays of the legs: when they ransacked the homes of the brothers.

Was wondering if charring on a body would show up in an x-ray? didn't they say the bodies were charred? the leg in the x-ray they showed, looked uncharred.

[Superfly]

13. OK, so which one is it

I mean some people here at DU swear that the Washington Post isn't worth wiping your ass with, and some take everything they say as gospel.

So, which one is it?

Brian

[EAMcClure]

15. It's official

Bush can now behead Castor and Pollux, fix them to boards, and display them to elite GOP donors.

Eric

[Noli Mitangere]

17. .

interesting

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Two bullets in/behind the right ear...

Now call me whacky, but that doesn't sound like something that just "happened" during a firefight.


"Odai was believed to have died from a head injury caused by a blunt object. Qusai had two bullet wounds to his head, in and just behind his right ear, doctors and medical officials said. They said they did not think the wounds were self-inflicted."