Those Saddam Hussein photos

Never mind the human rights angle, what I want to know is what difference there is between photos of Saddam in his underwear and the film footage of his medical examination. Regardless of how the Sun obtained the former, the release of the latter was officially sanctioned by the American government, which leads me to conclude that the current administration is guilty of hypocrisy: it has no qualms about showing Saddam in a degrading light yet cannot accept that someone else does so.

Please don't go thinking that I condone such behaviour on anyone's part - necessary though it was to show the Iraqis conclusive evidence that their dictator had been captured, there was no cause to go to these extremes. The intrusive nature of the the British tabloids would warrant a post of its own (and doubtless will); it is this very diregard for human decency which forbids me from providing a link to the photos. What is of greater importance here is how the Sun can be held in contempt of the Geneva convention while the Bush administration continues to get away scot-free.

It's all rather Animal farmesque: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.