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July 25, 2003
Reuters Asshats
I've got to run to class in a minute (ok, drive really fast but you know what I meant), but I had to mention this Reuters headline, which beats anything I've ever seen:
U.S. Displays Bodies That Look Like Saddam's Sons
Maybe they "look" like that because, I dunno, they are.
But unlike grisly, blood spattered photographs published by the U.S. military earlier, the faces had been touched up and shaved to make them more closely resemble the brothers in life -- a U.S. official insisted the aim was not to deceive...."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. He called it standard practice, although such post-mortem work is frowned on by most Muslims.
Hey, how about that for two birds with one stone? More ammunition for the moonbat conspiracy theorists AND an "offense" for the Muslim extremist loonies.
Biased asshats.
But I like this guy:
Businessman Khalil Ali said photographs meant nothing.
"They should have been hung up on poles in a square in Baghdad so all Iraqis could see them," he said. "Then they should have died as people ate them alive."
Indeedy.
Posted by Rita at July 25, 2003 09:07 AM