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Al-Jazeera TV broadcasts video of captured U.S. troops. Showing footage of captured Iraqi soldiers is okay, but according to Rumsfeld, showing American POWs on TV is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. It certainly doesn’t help the war propaganda machine… Nothing brings home the reality of war better than images of dead American soldiers. The comments of some of the captured men are certainly revealing.

“I come to shoot only if I am shot at,” said one prisoner, who said he was from Kansas. Asked why he was fighting Iraqis, he replied: “They don’t bother me; I don’t bother them.”

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