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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I hear the US is complaining about Iraq's treatment of prisoners of war. How can they demand that Saddam respect the Geneva Convetnion when they won't even do it themselves?

Probably because you can't tell the difference between soldiers and brigands.

Judging from the treatment of Iraqi soldiers who are now POWs, I'd say the US and British militaries can tell the difference. Well, except when some of Saddam's thugs open fire under a flag of surrender. Oh, but you have a handy excuse for that as well, right?

Elsewhere:

Also aloofi, I find it odd that such images are Banned in america. After all, you can go down the cinema any time and see ten times as many soldiers killed with a hundred times the gore.

Except the "gore" in the cinema involves special effects and the actors in question are usually still alive when the scene is finished. But don't let facts get in the way of your posturing.

I often find Americans very hard to understand for this sort of contradiction.

It's a matter of letting the families be informed if a loved one has been killed in action before they run into it on the nightly news and see the corpse.

AFAIK, the images aren't "Banned" but the networks are reluctant to show such things due to the above. Or if it was Banned, why was FoxNews able to show a still of the bodies from the Al-jazeera footage? One where the faces are not clearly visible, btw.