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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:02 AM
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re: zarqawi's dead picture - what's up with that gold frame?
just sayin....
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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:05 AM
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1. did someone go out and buy it today? make it? why gold?
it's so odd...
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:12 AM
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8. Where's the pix? n/t
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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:12 AM
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10. just turn on a tv...they keep showing it.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:00 AM
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30. just like when the showed Saddam when they got him
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 10:02 AM by alyce douglas
sickening, and someone just mentioned why didn't they bring this guy to justice? for the bombings and the killings he caused.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:15 AM
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12. link
http://www.cnn.com/
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:41 AM
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21. I agree. This is very odd...
And this reminds me of Saddam's sons. They cleaned them up, as well, and broadcast them all over the media, constantly. CNN currently has this pic in the corner during Tony Snow's press conference. You can't avoid it, just as with Saddam's sons. Normally you get a warning when they are going to show gruesome pictures, but not then and not now...:shrug:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:59 AM
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29. this is such a set up
and how many people are going to buy this??? alot of the sheep.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:10 AM
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34. Ah, but they will just keep repeating this, over and over and over,
as they do everything else that they want you to believe. Eventually, this will seep into the national consciousness, if they repeat it enough times. That's their MO, keep repeating and stay on-message.:-(
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Crowdance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:08 AM
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2. Have we always displayed pictures of dead people?
I am repulsed by this. It's ghoulish.
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:09 AM
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4. It's like the 19th century. nt
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:25 AM
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16. One more violation of the Geneva Convention.
Sickening. Funny how he looks like the guy in the recent video but not like the previous pix before that video.

Anyone has photos before the recent video?
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:44 AM
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22. I agree. They normally give a warning, so you can leave the room,
if you want to. But they aren't doing it this time, nor did they do it when showing pix of Saddam's dead sons. On CNN, this pic is in the corner of the screen during Tony Snow's press conference. I don't get it, either, nor do I like seeing it.:-(
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kittenpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:53 AM
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26. Do you remember the pictures they showed of Saddam's sons?
Those were much more graphic I thought...their faces were bloated and mangled; however they didn't keep them up for an extended period of time like they are with this one.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:14 AM
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36. That's what I said. You couldn't avoid those and you sure can't avoid
this one! Yikes, they just flashed a "before" pic of him, on CNN, just as they did with Saddam's sons, with no warning whatsoever!!! And CBS was fined for "nipplegate?!":puke:
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:08 AM
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3. The whole thing is just strange and bizarre.
Plus nauseating. So I'm supposed to get all giddy and patriotic looking at the face of a dead guy? Since when did we put giant dead faces on the national news?? I thought I was going to vomit.

I don't have enough info to know what to think, but I feel manipulated.

Nice for al-Maliki, huh, three weeks into his term?
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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:11 AM
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7. well I get showing the picture so people really believe he's dead
but why the gold frame treatment???? That is weird.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:10 AM
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5. It means...
al Quaeda has a corps of interior decorators.
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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:12 AM
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9. but WE put the picture up, not al quaeda...
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:10 AM
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6. So his pic can be carried around as a martyr
Soon they will add golden rays of sunlight and the rest of the symbolic crap.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:13 AM
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11. totally creeped me out
the caption said "US military showed this picture. . ."

Since when do we blow up pictures of dead faces poster size and frame them in gold? How long has he been dead? Didn't this take a bit of time to stage?
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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:17 AM
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13. "didn't this take a bit of time to stage?" That's what I'm sayin...eom
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:20 AM
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15. at the rate this war burns through $$$, are you kidding? nt
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:35 AM
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19. Prolly gold-leafed. n/t
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:17 AM
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14. Wondering the same thing here. Since all the networks are showing the dead
photo of him continuously, they've obviously been told to do so by someone. What the purpose is, I'm not sure. While I'm glad the monster Zarqawi is dead and gone, it's pretty inhumane to ram his dead face down everyone's throats 24/7. There's something to it. I don't know if it's the administrations way of thumbing their noses at the terrorists or what, but there's a concerted effort behind the constant display of his dead face, that's for sure. Very unsettling.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:31 AM
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17. They just grabbed the picture off of Rummy's wall
It was with his Pentagon missle-fragment souvenirs and the pieces of bone fragments and other ghoulish celebrations of death. "These are a few of my favorite things!"
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Tracer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:31 AM
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18. And the embalmers got right to work ...
... erasing any trace of damage caused by those two 500lb bombs. Just amazing.

I suppose that the photographer and picture-framer were waiting right outside the funeral director's lab with camera and a lovely selection of frames. "Would you prefer the mahogany or the gold?"

"Oh, surely the gold. Gold frames dead bodies so nicely".
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:36 AM
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20. This is just sick


It's 2006 but you'd think it was the fucking Dark Ages.

When will some Americans get over their fascination with killing and death? When will they stop glorifying death?

Why aren't they framing pictures of our soldiers or the dead civilian Iraqis this way, since our news media is hellbent on helping this administration destroy the Geneva conventions?

I hate American media more than I can say....
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:09 AM
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33. the media will play this non stop
sickening. The whole thing seems pretty fishy to me.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:47 AM
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23. A trophy head must be mounted properly:
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:52 AM
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25. Most Hunters Have Trophy Heads of Animals - Pics Like These Are...
the trophy heads on * & Cheney's walls.

* probably will place this next to Saddam's gun.

Ah - the spoils of war!!!!! refreshing isn't it.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:56 AM
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27. Yes. The mullahs will be celebrating
This guy was one of their biggest threats.

Once the U.S. forces are evicted, they will be free to fight with the Sunnis until one side or the other installs an authoritarian regime to repress the other group.

Life goes on.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:48 AM
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24. Don't worrry, they did that before gold hit $700 an ounce
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 09:49 AM by 48percenter
Won't cost the taxpayers any extra.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:57 AM
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28. the store ran out of gilded pikes?
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kittenpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:01 AM
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32. exactly n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:00 AM
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31. anyone who believes a word these scum say
does so at their own peril
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:12 AM
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35. 500 lb bomb.dropped on him..and he's got a bruise on his cheek....
hmmmmm
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 10:25 AM
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37. They had time to professionally mount and frame the pix?
Did they take it to Frames Plus at the mall?

Shenanigans.


BTW, did anyone count the legs on the body yet?
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