Please let it be true this time!

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Despite my overall feelings about the Iraq war, I'm glad these two are dead.

However, the public display of their photos is just another in a long line of hypocritcal actions by our esteemed*cough* government.

3/27/03 Fox News

Lockwood condemned the station for airing the footage, which he called \"a flagrant and disgraceful breach of the Geneva Conventions. \"We are shocked and appalled that the Iraqi regime has released close-up television pictures that claim to show dead U.K. military personnel,\" he said.

3/31/03 CNN

It seems weirdly priggish to discuss the brutalities of war and the technicalities of law in the same breath. But it was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has heretofore made no secret of his impatience with legalisms, who launched this salvo last week: \"It's a violation of the Geneva Convention,\" he angrily told CNN, \"[for Iraqi TV] to be showing prisoners of war in a humiliating manner.\"

3/24/03 Newsmax

Iraqi television showed videotape of five U.S. soldiers, including a woman, captured in south central Iraq, as well as the bodies of others they claimed were American. The video was broadcast by al-Jazeera satellite television.

http://www.inq7.net/wnw/2003/mar/24/wnw_2-1.htm

US Army Staff Sergeant John Alleman at the American command center in Doha condemned the broadcast of the tape.\"It kind of makes me mad that they're showing the bodies. They're just parading them. Morally it's wrong. We don't go around parading their bodies, especially on television.\"

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