HOW STUPID CAN BUSH BE? "“Although Odai and Qusai are criminals, displaying their corpses like this is disgusting and repulsive,” Saudi civil servant Saad Brikan, 42, said in Riyadh. “America claims it is civilized but is behaving like a thug.”
Here we were upset when TV channels showed alive American soldiers in Iraq and instead like typical hypocrites we go even one step better and show butchered Iraqis (I don't care who they are) and make the whole freaking Arab world hate us that much more and want to kill that much more Americans. Is the Bush White House plain stupid or just puke evil? Probably both.
So I have to ask: Is there even a SANE person in the Bush White House or did they all come out of the devil's pot? Sheesh...
msnbc.com
TV images of sons shock many Arabs
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 25 — Televised images of the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons shocked many Arabs, who said Friday that it was un-Islamic to exhibit corpses, however much the brothers were loathed.
ARAB AND OTHER international networks showed the bodies identified as those of Odai and Qusai Hussein laid out at the makeshift airport morgue, their faces partly rebuilt to repair wounds.
“Although Odai and Qusai are criminals, displaying their corpses like this is disgusting and repulsive,” Saudi civil servant Saad Brikan, 42, said in Riyadh. “America claims it is civilized but is behaving like a thug.”
Another civil servant, Hasan Hammoud, 35, said: “America always spoils its own image by doing something like this. What is the advantage of showing these bodies? Didn’t they think about the humanitarian aspect? About their mother and the rest of their family when they see these images?”
The brothers died Tuesday after U.S. forces laid siege to the villa in northern Iraq where they were hiding.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he ordered their bodies to be shown to convince frightened Iraqis that Saddam’s reign was truly over.
But prominent Saudi cleric Mohsen al-Awajy said: “This has been a dirty war from the beginning, and it is difficult for us to find any morals or dignity in the middle of this.
“The Americans want to show the Iraqis that they are achieving their goals. ... There was no need to show the bodies.”
He said that while under Islam the bodies should be treated with sanctity, Iraqis would not forget that Odai and Qusai had committed vicious crimes against them.
“We shouldn’t forget the pain of the Iraqis. These are just two casualties, and it would be better if their graves were kept secret. Otherwise, the Iraqis will attack their graves.”
Mohammad Emara, an Egyptian Islamist scholar, told al-Jazeera television that displaying the bodies publicly was against Islamic Sharia law.
“Under Islamic law, this is rejected. America wanted to boost the morale of its soldiers, so it resorted to this illegal act, which is denounced by all religions.
“America said during its war on Iraq that displaying pictures of its soldiers who were alive was against the Geneva Convention, so what about pictures showing disfigured bodies?” |
