WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - The Army has opened an investigation into whether American troops have sent gruesome photographs of Iraqi war dead to an Internet site where the soldiers were given free access to online pornography, Army officials said Tuesday.

Some photographs on the Internet site show people in American military uniforms standing around what appear to be dead bodies. Other photos include graphic images of severed body parts and what appear to be internal organs spilling from bodies onto the ground........

Link: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/55509bd2-3008-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html

Yep, seems they are doing a fine job of creating yet MORE willing volunteers to attack troops overseas. Talk about being their own worst enemy!

Which, when you think about it might mean this new initiative is dead and buried before its even started......

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cee35138-314d-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html

Gotta love their thinking!

There have been graphic images all over the 'net from Afghanistan and Iraq for ages...

There's a forum that I visit that recently featured a post by someone whose brother served in Iraq and brought a load of pictures back. These pictures were shocking. Human beings reduced to meat and ashes.

You never know if the pictures were taken to show the true brutality of war (ahem...I mean occupation) of if they are sick trophies.

For me, they reinforce how wrong this unjustified occupation is - for others, they probably gloat over some "rag-head's" demise. :(

I think the line is drawn where troops pose with the remains of those killed.

War is dirty, but freedom clearly in this case comes at a price, and alot of people have paid for it with their lives.

This is not some new phenomenon, neither is it an American problem. Since me have gone to war, with cameras they've taken photographs. Some photographs are lurid trophies to the horror of war.

What's different is that many of these snap happy GIs also have web access and are making their photographs available to anyone who wants to hunt them down via their Blogs or Usenet binary groups.

The press has lost perspective on the matter, which is why the U.S. Army pretty much had closed their investigation before it had really began.

When the war was still in its first phase, shots were released of the corpses of Saddam's two sons. These guys had suffered multiple gunshots to the head and heavy shrapnel damage (from when the US decided to use their TOW missiles on the house their besieged house). These pictures where displayed by every major news agency and where materially no different from the current "trophy shots". They contravene the same articles of the Geneva Convention.

The different is in the media spin, and in propaganda management.