Saddams photos in underwear

[Dom Tuk]

I am not a supporter of Saddam Hussein but i think that his pictures in the Sun are a disgrace. He is an ageing defeated man, his sons and close family have been killed and he will spend a long time in prison, the least we can do is show some dignity even though during his rule he did not.Or is there an ulterior motive behind publishing these photos.

[kick3m0n]

do you know what?  I couldn't care less about the photos.  I didn't print them, I didn't buy the papers that carrry them, I don't care who did/does and I don't feel they reflect badly on me at all.   

P.S. Dom....some of his friends and close family were killed by him!

[VINNY100_2]

At least his underpants were clean.I bet a lot of people about to be murdered by him didnt have that luxury!!

[newtron]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/20/saddam.photos/index.html

I don't think the Sun cares about anyone's dignity, as long as they can sell more news papers.

[Lillabet]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember that you were one of the people advocating all kinds of torture and degradation to be carried out on the killers of Mary Ann Lenaghan only a few days ago. Bearing in mind that Saddam Hussein has done equally as repellant things as those killers I find it odd that someone would support torture and slow death in that case but find these pictures a disgrace on the grounds of his dignity.

My position on that was that we should not descend to the level of degrading and torturing people no matter what the provocation and my position here is the same. So I disagree with the publication of the photos.

[jno]

my guess is that the Sun is hoping someone will protest about the photos, maybe even have them prosecuted, so they can squeal about being victims of political correctness and get publicity for themselves.

[DavidUK]

I totally agree with Lillabet. I have a guilty secret though: I can't now get out of my mind a picture of Bush and Blair locked up in their underwear - with me relishing the prospect!

[Lillabet]

DavidUk that is a disturbing image that I didn't need in my mind whilst trying to eat my lunch...

[luckystrike]

The photos will have the effect of showing those Iraqis who have still remained loyal to him that he is not super-human, but a pathetic defeated old man, who is rotting away in a 12 x 9 feet cell.

They may then realise that he will not be coming back to 'save' them, and their resiliance against the peace keeping troops may reduce

[SteveD]

There are two things I don't understand:

1. Why the photos were taken in the first place.

2. Why The Sun thinks that, by publishing them, people will rush out to buy more newspapers. (they are hardly "in the public interest".

[jake-the-peg]

Great

Can we now have photographs of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan and Abu Faraj al Libbi.

These and others have all "disappeared" in US custody.

Time was this sort of behaviour happened in banana republics not America.

At least the photos prove he's not "disappeared off the face of the earth" to quote the CIA on the whereabouts  of one detainee.

[natalie_1982]

I agree with andy hughes and jno.

I don't really see what they will gain (apart from publicity) by publishing the photographs, I think it will only aggravate the situations in Iraq and who wants that?  I thought the Sun was all for supporting the squaddies?  It jus strikes me as a bit odd.

[Dom Tuk]

Lillabet I think you are getting carried away by some posts that mentioned how to punish those convicted of Mary Ann leneghans murder. Yes i wanted terrible things to happen to them (in the heat of the moment) but i can assure you that if someone said 'right lets do them' i would not support it. My views on Blair and Cherie you will probably remember are not very nice. But that is not to say that if i came face to face with Cherie I will insult her. No i wont. I will of course be civil to them.

[El D]

Nice Lillabet. Completely agree. Funny how illogical most people are.

[Dark Angel]

Agree with kick3m0n. I couldn't care less about photos of that nature (not that I saw them) of SH.

He was a despicable man who had his own family members killed and so many other people tortured and killed. Why would anybody care about safeguarding his dignity?

[Dark Angel]

I like to add that, like my post in the MaryAnn Leneghan thread revealed, I am against the death penalty, torture and abuse of anybody, even the lowest criminal.

But there are much more important things to be upset about than Sadam Hussein being photographed in his undies.  

[flaming]

We are all speaking about "The Sun".  It would gladly show anything that it considered to be a 'scoop'.

[slimfandango]

It's just Saddam trying to get cheap publicity before his 'Life of' comes out. He organised the photo shoot himself and will split the profits with Rumsfeld (or 'Rummierummie' as he calls him.

[Philtaz]

The pictures are far less striking and certainly less humiliating than the pictures of women and children who were gassed to death in Halabja.

Only The Scum would print such pictures for titillation and as such they should be treated for their comedic value, nothing more.  After all, they are hardly the result of dogged investigative journalism are they?

[KebabMeister]

It's actually in breach of the Geneva Convention, that's if Saddam was actually taken prisoner under terms of war (which I'm sure it was).

I don't like Saddam, but it seems that we get angry when people break the Geneva Convention, yet The Sun are advocating breaking the Geneva Convention by publishing these pictures.