Friday, June 09, 2006

What's Frame of Reference?

We have killed al-Zarqawi. I am not shocked. We kill a lot of people to whom we have given the label terrorist. The thing that gets to me, is that the military took a picture of his dead beaten face and framed it in a respectable solid frame, looks like beveled wood. A costly frame, not one you could pick up at the 99 cents store. And mounted it on an easel draped with a nice black cloth (so as to disguise the tacky easel). Is this standard procedure? Take photos of the people you kill, enlarge the photos to bigger than life, and then frame them tastefully for the world to see. If this was a serial killer’s M.O. we would think them sick and deranged, more than a serial killer who just threw the bodies in the river when they were done. I guess there are many things that the white house/ military has been called and they are really doing their best to show class.

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