Teribus, I could agree with you about photographs of the swabs for DNA testing.

But checking for head lice? No.

That is just the sort of humiliating photograph/video the Geneva conventions were designed to preveent from being circulated. One of the top Pentagon media whores for NBC here in the US said that it has always been the Pentagon and administration plan to publicly humiliate Saddam if he was captured alive. Said it right there on MSNBC's nightly news on Sunday night. That is a pretty blatant violation of the Geneva convention, regardless of the fact that Saddam was the leader of the nation. His official status is still prisoner of war, and the Bush administration admitted that officially yesterday.

With the standing of the US at an all time low--and most Americans don't realize this, because they are oblivious of world opinion or never travel beyond our borders--the public humiliation of Saddam on international television by the US was not only illegal in terms of international law, but it just makes the US look bad, not Saddam.

What world leaders say, and what their people feel and believe, are two entirely different things, Teribus. That is a matter that the Bush administration keeps ignoring too. They are really myopic when it comes to world opinion. They keep thinking of it in terms of political leaders, not vox populi.