THE MAKE-UP OF MAKING IT UP ARTISTS

Those American morticians really are amazing.

I have nothing but admiration at their ability to turn a face that looked like this:



Into this:



How do they do it?

BBC News Online: US displays bodies of Saddam sons

In May, Tony Blair, the MoD and the Conservatives called on the BBC not to show a short clip, which had been heavily blurred, from Al Jazeera pictures of two dead British soldiers who went missing after an attack near Al Zubayr. The BBC -- rightly in my view given the context in which the clip was shown -- went ahead with the broadcast.

Uday and Qusay Hussein deserve no sympathy. Iraq is better off without their poisonous existence. Even so, why is it acceptable to show the bullet-riddled and bloodied bodies of war casualties -- so long as they're only of the "enemy"?