How badly can we bungle Odai and Qusai's deaths?
It is clear to me now that we should have had full and massive disclosure. We should have had TV cameras showing their bodies as soon as the fire fight ended. We should have had the people who did the visual identification do so in front of journalists. Instead, the military told the war, "Trust us, we wouldn't lie to you". A really stupid strategy given that we lied about Iraq having WMD's. So now, we are slowly doing those things that we should have done - we have released pictures and we have had reporters view the bodies. But because we have done it so slowly and so grudgingly, we have turned an event that should have inspired jubiliation in the Iraqi into an event that inspired yet more mistrust.
From AP:
The photos, however, seemed to have had little effect on Iraqi opinions.
"This is a U.S. ploy to try to break the spirit of the resistance," said Jassim al-Robai, a computer engineer eating at a restaurant in Baghdad.
After seeing the images, Al-Robai said he wasn't convinced that the brothers were killed.
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