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Give Them The Mussolini Treatment

Some people aren't convinced by photos.

"We will believe they are dead when Uday and Qusay's bodies are tied to cars and dragged through the streets so everybody can see them," said Muhammad, an engineer.

As I said, it would be barbaric in western terms, but maybe the most psychologically effective thing to do would be to hang them from something, and tour it around Baghdad on the back of a tank. Just be sure to keep the bodies high enough so they can't get at them--otherwise, you won't have much left by the time you get to the end of the first street, vis:

"Death is not enough. They should have been hung up on poles in a square in Baghdad so all Iraqis could see them. Then they should have died as people ate them alive," said businessman Khalil Ali. "The photographs do not mean anything."

Bon appetit...

Posted by Rand Simberg at July 24, 2003 03:01 PM
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Presumably the observant Muslims would have to pass on the nice Chianti. But there's always the fava beans.

Posted by Jim Bennett at July 25, 2003 12:06 PM

I'm suprised that the news broadcasts haven't put more doctors out there describing what happens to a body that receives the type of trauma shown by the pictures. For instance Uday's face appears to that of a large over weight person. But in reality much of that bloating and swelling was caused by the blunt force trauma of multiple TOW missles to the head :\ It quite obvious that if you imagine his nose was still attached to his skull properly and that the cranium wasn't shattered that it is a spitting imagine of him in his pictures. The most telling to me is the way his lower lip sticks out in a constant pout even in death despite the mangle facial structure.

I think they would be more convinced if Pres. Bush was shown on air hitting the corpses over the head with his shoes. That seems to be a message they would understand.

Posted by Hefty at July 25, 2003 04:16 PM


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