Please let it be true this time!

[Flock of Moosen]

Originally posted by The Brain
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.

Like I said earlier, they don't call him The Brain for nothing.

Still, like I said, they could have showed it just to the Iraqis. Even though many here wanted to see the pics, we didn't need to.
It just made us look like hypocrites on top of everything else the world thinks we are.