Jim,

>I have NOT seen the video that is so appalling to U.S. authorities. But I can't blame anyone for seeing (another) double-standard here, where U.S. TV CAN show Iraqi POWs but NO TV should show coalition prisoners.

I've seen the video showing the american POWs (two white men and a black woman) and the dead ones, as well. It was presented by Al Jazeera TV and shown last night in Rede Globo in Brazil.

As far as I've been noticed, the Geneva Convention prohibits any exposure of POWs that enables one to recognize who is in the picture. The Iraqi POWs where shown in brazilian TV (from US videos) very clearly, you could see every single detail of their faces.

>And one can't help but ask ones self WHY it is so appalling to show the FULL UGLINESS of war? ... In a free and democratic society? There must be some reason, don't you think?

Also thing the americans should see what's happening with their troops (they get captured and dead, too. Can you believe?) AND to the Iraqi civilians. Do the american networks are showing all that?.

In Brazil we are witnessing all the brutality of this insane war.