CNN's Anderson Cooper is comforting viewers who want to see Saddam hanging pictures and video

[Herman Munster]

He says they are waiting for them to be released and we will show them when we get them.

[Halliburton]

1. are they going to show the Iraqi officials dancing around the body

so the American people can be amazed at the civilized nature of the puppet government

[ScottytheRadical]

3. Something like that

I was watching Anderson Cooper earlier and had to stop. He was interviewing Iraq's "deputy ambassador" to the UN, a man who conspiculously had no accent to speak of (can anyone say American-educated?), and who was gloating about "a victory for the Iraqi people".

How exactly is the execution of a man who did not receive a fair trial a victory? How is something that's going to incite violence and cause even more deaths a victory?

Once we supported something called the Nuremberg trials that brought dozens of Nazi war criminals to justice. Now we support mock trials followed by public executions followed by media exploitation...

[EFerrari]

2. How did we get here. How did we get from a nation that shut down

when JFK was murdered to a nation waiting on the pix of our dead puppet.

[Skip Intro]

4. Seems like if we were going to see the sentence carried out, we'd also

get to see the trial.

?

[MiniMe]

5. Well, they are going to review them first

How comforting. :sarcasm:

[silverojo]

6. Hypocrisy of the public and media

It's OK to show JFK's head being blown off repeatedly, in slow-motion, every November for decades...yet it's "tasteless" to show Saddam (with a hood to cover his face) being hanged.

And please, don't anyone even begin to argue that JFK was given a fair trial before his death....

[daleo]

7. Its like the Roman Empire

Bringing back the head of a slightly rebellious provincial leader, for the plebes to gawk at and admire the power of the Empire.