War Porn

Why does the Pentagon keep releasing pictures and videos of the corpses of Hussein’s sons? Yesterday they released pictures of their bloody faces and today they’re got this weird video where their bodies have been “prettied up” to look like wax dummies. I can understand that the Iraqi people have a hard time believing that the U.S. is telling the truth (they’re not the only ones), but there’s something really tacky about all this. Aren’t these photos being released by the same people who chastised the Iraqis for releasing pictures of dead U.S. POWs? I guess the rules only apply to the “bad guys” .


posted by greg on July 25, 2003 @ 12:13 pm

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  1. I like that the CNN report said that Al Jazeera did not skip the more gruesome elements. What a great self-congratulation on how CNN is sensitive and shows more discretion when showing bullet ridden corpses.

    Comment by Joshua — July 25, 2003 @ 4:20 pm

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