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'So you think it's perfectly ok for US troops to grin and give the thumbs up while having their photo taken over a dead Iraqi?'
What's so bad about it though? These days people are getting so highly strung at the littlest of things. Big deal they're smiling over a dead Iraqi, i don't see why everybody should be all "O-M-G!! THEY'RE SMILING!! SWEET JESUS!! GOOD GOD!! NO...etc. etc.".
I personally find some of the POW "humiliation" pictures amusing, especially the one with all the POW naked and piled up on one another with the woman in the middle doing Jazz hands and smiling.
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OK, let me put it in perspective for you.
If someone took your friends, maybe a few of your countries soldiers, perhaps your next door neighbour, shot one or two of them, humiliated a bunch of them, grinned in photos they took near them, and got them on the front cover of nearly every newspaper in the world, would you still feel that it's not a big deal?
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If you laugh at a dead person, you have no tact whatsoever. I was even disgusted when Americans were happy about Saddams sons being killed. Sure they were bad guys, but that just feels so wrong to me.
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You know what? I felt exactly the same thing. It really brought home the horrors of war to me, when they said joyfully "we've got saddams two sons". I sat there for a moment looking at the television in shock, sat back, and wondered to myself whether I should be happy or sad - instead I just asked myself what the world has really come to for something like this to end up happening.
When I expressed these feelings to people, they just looked confused and like they had no idea what I was talking about - it didn't seem to occur to them that Saddam is now experiencing the trauma of losing his children, and that Saddam, and his two sons were human beings.
It was almost like in their blank stares they were saying "what? But the news says that they're horrible monsters... not humans".