Anybody remember the controversy over Uday 'n'Qusay's bodies?

[RandomKoolzip]

As I recall, most people believed the photos were retouched, that they were not really them, etc. THis was just a few weeks ago, and now it's off the radr completely. Wha hoppa? Were they fakes? Any updates?

[Uzybone]

1. I dont know about that

I think most of the controversy was about the ghoulish display or death porn by the Bush admin. Most people accept the fact that it was thier bodies. But what most felt was 1) displaying the corpses like that was beneath a civilized nations standard 2) it wasnt going to make a difference in the long run which has been proved correct.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. While displaying the corpses was morally repugnant,

I do recall quite a few posts here and elsewhere about how the bodies were touched up with make-up artist's putty (admitted by the army!) and how most people doubted that the bodies were indeed Uday and Qusay. Even if they were, yes, indeed, it is still hideous that the administration behaved like a rabid indoor cat bringing a dead cockroach to the feet of its owner.

Again, does anybody have any updates about this? Why did this story go the way of The Yale Bombing (what the hell was THAT about, anyway?)?

[MrBenchley]

2. Wasn't killing those two supposed to bring "hope" to Iraq?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33896-2003Jul23?language=printer

[rooboy]

7. And they were two thirds of the Hussein regime...

according to Fred Barnes.

[MrBenchley]

9. Another insightful remark from Freddo

Doesn't he get tired of being right all the time (snicker).....

[DemBones DemBones]

4. There was controversy both about the U.S. displaying the

bloodied, disfigured bodies and about the U.S. displaying the cleaned-up bodies with features reconstructed with mortician's wax -- and one of them had been shaved of his beard, too. On Link TV's Mosaic (a collage of stories from Middle Eastern TV news), people said, in essence, that they knew American technology could fake anything. They don't go in for reconstructing faces of the dead, apparently, as Muslims must be buried within 24 hours. (That also was unpopular, the fact that we kept them from being buried in a timely manner.) I don't always catch Mosaic but it happens to be coming up at 10:30 so I'll see if they mention anything. I imagine it's still a hot topic in the region but may not make the news.

[gratuitous]

5. Meanwhile, Saddam turns into Kayser Sozé

If you've seen "The Usual Suspects," you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, well, it's a darn good movie and you should rent it and watch it soon!

[Blue_Chill]

6. most people? No. Most people wearing tin hats? Sure. n/t

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[RandomKoolzip]

8. You don't need a tin hat to smell a rat.

Anybody with optical nerves can see somethin' fishy with this story. It's also fishy how, after so many people raised doubts about the veracity of the military's claims, the story dropped off the map.

Nahhhh, just conspiracy talk, huh? Right, the Bush admninistration would never do anything like that....

[maggrwaggr]

10. "Ouday and Qusay arrested today in Chemical Ali's basement"

Not true, but I'm expecting to see it any day now.

"did we say they were dead?"