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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
My, what a big straw man you have there. If you point is true, then perhaps we should just pull out the nuclear bombs and kill everyone on the planet, you war-monger!!!! (See, I can build a good straw man too.) 
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Nice straw man theory, but not correct. I was responding to various people that said we should have taken them alive for some reason. They were (apparently) soldiers, soldiers who fought to the dead. My, weren't they brave... The US offered them terms of surrender ("get the fuck out of that building!"), and they refused to do so, making their deaths entirely justified.
As for them being shown... as soon as they were dead, they changed from being (ex-) soldiers to (ex-) politicians, whose deaths - if proven - might persuade many Iraqis that things are going to be all right.
Discussing whether showing them was hypocritical is just hypocritical, especially if you take into account that many people opposing this have always said the US should prove that Iraq had WMDs, or that the US should in fact prove *everything* it says (they can't be trusted, after all).
Now the US has proven what they said, and people start whining that they shouldn't have done that. Even if it's not hypocritical, it's certainly rather silly. In the real world, laws aren't universal, nor are some things always wrong, or other things always right. It's slightly more complex than that.
In this case, the good effects of showing these bastards' pics far outweigh the potential breach of the Geneva convention.