IRAQ SUCCESS! SPORTS HEAL A WOUND AS SOCCER REPLACES KILLING

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The pornography of war

Posted by Richard Engel, NBC News Correspondent (12:35 pm ET, 04/21/06)
Editor's note: The graphic subject matter of this blog may be disturbing to some readers.

The future of television, or so we are so often told, is about video on demand, movies on cell phones and full integration with the Internet. Well, it seems to see that future we need to look no further than Baghdad.

An Iraqi friend of mine today showed off his new cell phone, with a slick two-inch screen and full video capability. He showed me his home movies.

Video one: Severed head of a suicide bomber

The head was intact except for a few front teeth that were missing. The head was on the ground, surrounded by a huddle of Iraqi national guards.

Each one of them had video-cell phones out, looking down at the head and filming their combat boots crush the bombers face like they were putting out smoldering cigarette. Others kicked the head like a soccer-ball. Then, the Iraqi troops didn’t bury the head, but tossed it in a trash container. The national guards all thought that was very appropriate and very funny. They laughed a lot.

Video two: Severed bust of suicide bomber...
http://onthescene.msnbc.com/baghdad/2006/04/war_and_pornogr.html#posts

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