Do you think it's civilized to paste Zarqawi's dead face on the front page of every paper in the US?

Question

Aren't you just a little bit disgusted? Doesn't it remind you of the "Dark Ages" when they displayed peoples heads on the posts outside of castles and villages? Should we revel in this gore?
Sure he was a bandit, maybe even a major bandit and a hateful scoundrel to us in the US, but does that justify our own bad behavior?

Sure Zarqawi was a monster who deserved to die, but I will choose the best answer based on the logic of your arguments, whether I agree with them or not. If you choose to personally attack me, it's your business, but I won't vote for you.

Answer 1

Yes. Without the photo's, many people might think it's a hoax and not believe it. I did not think the photo's were so bad. I only saw his head. I think our society has a problem with thoughts of death and dying. It happens.

I am wondering why you chose to criticise the photo presentation but apparently did not find fault with the fact that we killed him. Dropped a bomb on him. And the military following him like some TV football spectacular where viewers yell, "Get him. Get him. Bam!" Yes, this person did many many disgusting things, but why couldn't we have tried to take him alive? Are we insecure that we could hold him? A woman and child were killed along with him. They were probably sympathizers, nonetheless Americans love to kill killers. How is this terrorist leader so different from individuals I read about in the papers everyday who hurt, kill, maim, people who live in our own cities and towns. It's a cops and robbers game that mobsters, politicians, corrections people, the media and consumers seem to get off on.

Thanks for asking. It helps to blow off steam.

Answer 2

Sure it's in bad taste but it's the privately owned media not the government. In any case the most wanted in Iraq wasn't as you put it so tamely as "bandit" or "scoundrel" - Zarqawi was the top leader of the al-Qaida terror group in Iraq, and behind some of the most gruesome kidnappings and killings in Iraq - still it does not justify the sensationalizing by the media but it's big news globally.

Answer 3

Isn't it funny how people never expressed outrage over dragging dead Americans thru the streets, burning their bodies and hanging their corpses from bridges but get all upset about a simple photo of a dead terrorist.

The hatred of the Left (even the American Left) for America knows no bounds. Their cheer-leading for anyone who will attack America and kill Americans is limitless. Their whining, nagging and nattering will never end.

Oh gosh, we weren't delicate enough when handling this scum's corpse. Oh my we should have sent in someone from the Mayberry PD to arrest him (no cuffs mind you) and then let Ramsey Clark or some other Left wing lawyer defend him an hold press conferences about how he wasm't read his rights. And, of course, we should have let Michael Moore have one more chance to film him and then reiterate his praise for him as being "just like the Minutemen."

Answer 4

You won't make many friends saying that, but I agree with you. The newspapers are a cause of the desensitisation we see, where nobody feels anything when they see dead bodies. The tsunami reports also showed plenty of them.

It is, of course, true that the man was gruesome and used the media to his advantage while beheading people. But I think that newspapers need to say 'that was wrong and so we will behave in a better manner'. Possibly they should include links to age-protected websites with the photos for people who really want conclusive proof that he's dead.

Answer 5

DARK AGES????!!! I believe it was not long ago they had our american soldiers heads and bodies dragged thru the streets while they chanted. I think we should dress zarqawi's body up in womens clothes, set him on a big pig with an apple in his mouth and plaster his picture all over their and every other blood thirsty, american hating, women murdering, cowardly fighting, terroristic country s television and newspaper. Kinda like when they chopped off our guys heads. Remember the news reporters? The televised the murder. Give me a break you whining liberal. These people would kill even you if they could get to you.

Answer 6

MAYBE he was a bandit.

What pile of sand have you had your head buried in.

Sure, let's be ignorant enough to compare the act of beheading a civilian while the scum bag and his demon possessed moronic friends laugh in the background to showing a photo of a dead person WHO HAS MURDERED THOUSANDS.

Maybe it's uncivilized for some stupid reporter to ask a family member of a murder victim how they feel, I'll agree with that. It's certainly uncivilized to protest at a soldiers funeral. But this low life scum bag got everything he deserved and is worthy of absolutely no consideration or decency whatsoever.

The only thing that would have added to my personal pleasure would have been if they would have covered him with pig sh*t and lit him on fire while it was aired on al jezeera.

ANY QUESTIONS?

Answer 7

Maybe not. But it will cut down on the number of people who say he's not really dead because they haven't seen any proof he is dead.

I'm disgusted people like that are allowed to live as long as they do. I'm disgusted there are people who would back his ilk and I wish there were pictures of them in the same condition.

OBTW I'm not reveling. But there are a lot of people in Iraq who are.

You want Utopia. This aint it. In Utopia people like Zarqawi don't exist. This is the REAL world.

Answer 8

Zelda, you really didn't think this one through.

First, his face is publicized so that people believe he is actually dead. Otherwise, Al-Qaeda and others would claim he is still alive for propaganda purposes. The newspapers had to do the same in Iraq with Saddam's sons. These despicable men were so feared that the Iraqis needed the assurance that they were indeed dead so they wouldn't live in fear of them anymore.

Secondly, have you gone completely insane with political correctness? Al-Zarqawi CUT OFF THE HEADS of innocent people in order to create a Nazi-like state of absolute terror. And you're concerned that the publication of this foto, even though it comforted people who had lived in constant fear of his savagery? Shouldn't these people see proof he is dead so they can have some peace of mind?

ARE YOU KIDDING WITH THIS PC NONSENSE?

Answer 9

Two reasons.....

(1) There is a significant portion of the middle eastern population who will not believe he is dead without the proof..

(2) The Clingon had no such quarms when he personally beheaded a handfule of hostages on videotape.

Personally his nude body should be dragged though street by chihuahas, his tiny testes removed, and he should be buried among the solid human waste dump of West Jerusalem facing northwest toward the Benolux countries.

Answer 10

"A bandit!" That's like calling Jeffrey Daumer a meat connoisseur. He was monster that personnally beheaded Americans and Iraqis, not to mention direct the murder of many, many others. Showing his photo was more for the Arab world's benefit than ours, so they can believe that he really is dead.