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#1 2003-07-24 10:23 am
- ShnickyShnack
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Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
CNN is broadcasting the images now (ew!), but I was wondering what you folks thought of this. Anyone here think it's distasteful for a government to be publicizing images like that?
Me, I guess Republicans won't be able to complain about nasty images on TV anymore ...
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#2 2003-07-24 10:24 am
- Tallgeese
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
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#3 2003-07-24 10:24 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
I think George W. should drive around Washington D.C. with them on the hood of his F-150, and then string them up like deer on the White House lawn.
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#4 2003-07-24 10:28 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
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#5 2003-07-24 10:30 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
I'm pretty sure that there's a FCC code that disallows the showing of dead bodies on television.
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#6 2003-07-24 10:33 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
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#7 2003-07-24 10:41 am
Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
Would that be the Geneva convention that Bushco claimed Iraq was violating by showing captured GIs, at the same time as Bushco were showing captured Iraqis?
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#8 2003-07-24 10:43 am
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Yup, that's the one.
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#9 2003-07-24 10:49 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
This is as sad as when Mousollini was strung up for all to see.
Trylu a sad day. The Iraqis have to endure seeing their loving leaders displayed this way.
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#10 2003-07-24 11:00 am
- ghlbtsk
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Just out of curiosity, what was the point of that? What purpose could it have possibly served?
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#11 2003-07-24 11:19 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
You mean showing the photos or Omega's sarcasm?
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#12 2003-07-24 11:26 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
Except this is accepted in their culture.
No let's not go and change these people's culture for the sake of the squimish just so soon.
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#13 2003-07-24 11:29 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
Except this is accepted in their culture.
No let's not go and change these people's culture for the sake of the squimish just so soon.
Are we part of their culture?
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#14 2003-07-24 11:34 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Now, to some degree. When conquoring army's marched through Persia, they would display the slain leaders as well as the Persian's would do the same and still do. They expect it.
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#15 2003-07-24 11:35 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
Sorry, it only applies to uniformed military personelle... 
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#16 2003-07-24 11:36 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Now, to some degree. When conquoring army's marched through Persia, they would display the slain leaders as well as the Persian's would do the same and still do. They expect it.
You mean two thousand years ago? How humane was "Western" culture back then? And are Iraqis the same people as the Persians, who were from Iran (and came originally from the Medes, long, long since disappeared from history)?
Anyway, if the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to Arabs, then terrorism is just hunky dory, right? 9/11 just par for the course?
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#17 2003-07-24 11:38 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
Sorry, it only applies to uniformed military personelle...
Well, if they aren't military personnel, then they're civilians so it's still illegal!
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#18 2003-07-24 11:39 am
Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Distasteful and illegal.
Illegal? What authority can censor that?
The Geneva Convention prohibits displaying the dead for propaganda.
Sorry, it only applies to uniformed military personelle...
im going to have to agree here
Just like back in Saigon! Eh, slick?
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#19 2003-07-24 11:43 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Now, to some degree. When conquoring army's marched through Persia, they would display the slain leaders as well as the Persian's would do the same and still do. They expect it.
That doesn't explain why it was displayed on American television networks.
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#20 2003-07-24 11:45 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
The point of doing this was to prove to people in Iraq that they are, in fact, dead.
It was all over the news yesterday about how the administration was debating if they should show the bodies on TV or not, on the one hand it'd be pretty foul, could be seen as gloating, and they would be violating some of their own principlies, but one the other, it's the easiest way to silence the large number of people who say that the US was lying and that the two were not really dead.
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#21 2003-07-24 11:49 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Do you have a link?
I am not on CNN
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#22 2003-07-24 11:51 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
You can see them at CNN.com
I refuse to look.
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#23 2003-07-24 11:53 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
If you use the weapons of your enemy, you slowly become your own enemy.
George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
George Bush: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to try to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
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#24 2003-07-24 11:55 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Well, how do you propose that it's made clear that they are, in fact, dead?
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#25 2003-07-24 11:55 am
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Re: Corpses of Saddam's sons shown on TV
Quote me one more time and I'll break your smurfing legs.
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