Soldier #1: How did you guys know he was in there? Soldier #2: When we saw all of those rats streaming out of the tunnel, we knew someone important was hiding. Soldier #1: Well, even his bastard kids have abandoned him.
Hey, they strung up Mussolini's body upside down at a gas station and people came by and spat at it for 24 hours. Gadaffi's corpse got off easy--it even got a trip down the coast to Misrata on a sunny day and a parade.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMaCfrs0yY"]Amateur video shows bloodied Colonel Gaddafi was captured Alive! - YouTube[/ame] The guy screaming like that screamer at MMA fights. lulz
Get this shit off. I'm sorry I didn't see it before but god-damn. The man was evil but nobody deserves to be paraded around after they're dead.
Weak American. This is how news is presented in the majority of the world and I for one thinks our media does the nation a disservice due to what they could consider taste editing. It's sugar coating death, which is perverse because death is real.
Well then you'd say the increase in wars our country engages in as our media has increasingly presented these graphic images is a conundrum of a correlation, then, eh?
In a way, sure. The less icky war looks the more likely people will support it. BTW, I don't see the increase in presentation from US media. I see proper presentation by sources like Al Jazeera being picked up by internet news and commentary outlets and the US media following because they are afraid of missing the boat, if at all. ASF/DK, please bring the picture back. As I read it, that image does not violate the TOS and this is a good conversation to have.
Maybe if the pic comes back, it can just be as a link, and not embedded, with a warning like "NSFW" or something.
Him yes, but that is expected. The guy that screams after 'Allahu Akbar' (unless it's the same guy). Good stuff
The first person that showed me Faces of Death in high school was my friend KC who is going on his 20th year as a paramedic on Long Island. Besides this I can't begin to understand your point, straightedge. Enjoy your sanitized world.
Even playing along with this macabre theme, how the h*** does Obama get "credit" for Gadhafi? Seems more like Mubarak and Gadhafi are in another game, IMO. Aside: If people are celebrating the removal of dictators like Gadhafi and Mubarak, does this do anything to signal more support/approval for the Bush wars that encouraged some these uprisings? Just asking.
This. Those of us who are squeamish or have the ability to override our morbid curiosity can avoid looking without interfering with anyone else's right to see gory pictures.
If anything, it should signal approval for doing exactly what the US did - help out but let the locals run the show. Or at least appear to run the show. There is no way that the American people are going to get behind another full-on war for the sole purpose of regime change. Folks are sick to death of it. On the other hand, jackasses like McCain are on TV saying that Obama should have done more and maybe 30,000 people wouldn't have died. What an asshole.
I agree. Our need to help should be in a limited capacity and through air and drone support. If the people on the ground want change, Libya shows that with the right support they can make it happen. Now as for Syria, I think the US should sit on the sideline and let Turkey and others do the helping. Same for iran.