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This is another case of Bush shooting himself in the foot again. Aside from the Geneva Convention aspects of this question, consider that we are trying to set up a "democratic" government for the people of Iraq and, therefore should be doing everything possible to establish some kind of empathy for these people. Despite the fact that these two guys may be hated by many of the Iraqis, we really piss off the whole country when we do things that are contrary to their religion. And doing what they did with these two bodies was sacreligious in the extreme, not just the photos, but fooling with the bodies, shaving them, not burying them appropriately, etc. If we're going to take over a country and pretend to be doing them a favor by being there, we should at least learn enough about them to not offend them at every turn. We have a poor history in this regard.
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