I don't understand why, but I felt like at the time I was the only person who was outraged by the pictures.

It was July 2003, and the news was reporting that Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay--who had always been bitter little assholes because their father named them in Pig Latin--died in a firefight and my government decided to patch up the bodies real nice and show them on television.

It was disgusting. It was sick. Sicko. Gross. It was vomitous. It was the "culture of life" hard at work.

So every time a new charge comes out, I am always amazed at the outrage and the surprise that seems to come up. What are you so surprised about to learn that U.S. soldiers burned two dead bodies and then used the event to taunt the enemy? Your president didn't seem to see anything wrong with using two corpses to prove a point.

"This command does not condone the mistreatment of enemy combatants or the desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs," said Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, the top U.S. tactical commander in Afghanistan. "This alleged action is repugnant to our common values, is contrary to our command's approved tactical operating procedures, and is not sanctioned by this command."

Oh, really? That's why on July 23, 2003, we all had to spend the day looking at a couple of mummified corpses?