Please let it be true this time!

[The Brain]

As much as I am thrilled these scumbags are dead and hope their father is next, I have to agree on the hypocrisy. We were in an uproar when our troops were shown, but now that we're showing Frick and Frack, it's all of a sudden okay. Why, because they're technically not military?

If the Iraqis needed to see this for confirmation, then fine show it to them, but for us to be showing it all over is no better that what they did to us.

This action was as much for the Iraqis to know that two members of the regime were not coming back like boogeymen to get them, as it was for all the naysayers to this war who keep asking why we haven't caught or killed any of the major figures in the great war on terror.

There are 2 down, and 2 left (Saddam and Osama).

In some ways, yes it is hypocritical of the army to release the photos to the general public. But where Al-Jazeera was broadcasting American P.O.W.s as a means of propaganda, I consider this photo release to be a fact-showing.

Remember, Al-Jazeera and the Iraqi regime routinely fed the people misinformation or outright lies concerning this conflict (yeah, and some will say the U.S. gov't and media were no better), so you can understand how the Iraqi people, and the global community at large, will not just take anyone's word for it. Hussein and his sons regularly used body doubles as well-- it was absolutely necessary to display that these were, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the two sons of Hussein.