Bang! Bang!... he's dead...

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9 Jun 2006, 09:31

(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:

I Am John Barnes wrote:

(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote: Yes, his banged-up mush was on the front cover of the paper this morning. Struggling to see how this is much different from beheadings on al-Jazeera/the internet meself....

Are you serious? A picture of a dead corpse equates to video of a beheading?

Why not? It's a symbolic "fuck you", pure and simple. Perhaps you mean a dead Arab corpse doesn't equate to the beheading of a Western journlaist?

When the Western media posts video of a Western soldier lopping off the head of a civilian off with a kitchen knife, then I will equate it to being the same.

The media over here showed pictures of dead bodies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, was that just a symbolic "fuck you" as well?

9 Jun 2006, 09:32

(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:

I Am John Barnes wrote:

(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote: Yes, his banged-up mush was on the front cover of the paper this morning. Struggling to see how this is much different from beheadings on al-Jazeera/the internet meself....

Are you serious? A picture of a dead corpse equates to video of a beheading?

Why not? It's a symbolic "fuck you", pure and simple. Perhaps you mean a dead Arab corpse doesn't equate to the beheading of a Western journlaist?

The difference being that the journalist is simply trying to report the news, whilst al-Zaharwi is responsible for God knows how many murders, with many more in his future, if he wasn't turned into an Arab corpse.

9 Jun 2006, 09:36

(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:

I Am John Barnes wrote:

(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote: Yes, his banged-up mush was on the front cover of the paper this morning. Struggling to see how this is much different from beheadings on al-Jazeera/the internet meself....

Are you serious? A picture of a dead corpse equates to video of a beheading?

Why not? It's a symbolic "fuck you", pure and simple. Perhaps you mean a dead Arab corpse doesn't equate to the beheading of a Western journlaist?

While I'm certainly no fan of the USA's high-fives and whooping when they accomplish something like this, I was under the impression that they have to show at least a glimpse of the corpse otherwise people (the Iraqis in particular) won't believe he's actually dead? :shrug: It's not like they're going to take the USA's word for it straight off.

It's a pretty powerful propaganda tool and they did the same thing with Saddam when they captured him. They had to actually prove they had him otherwise who would've believed them?

But yeah, some of it is a symbolic "fuck you" as well.