March 23, 2003. Rumsfeld points out that it breaches the Geneva Convention on treatment of POWs when Iraqi tv shows "humiliating" footage of captive American soldiers, as well as some dead soldiers. He gets away with this hypocrisy because most Americans don't know or care about all the ways we've violated the Geneva Convention with the POWs misclassified as "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay. I kept waiting for the Iraqis to respond by saying, "We have no American prisoners of war, only enemy combatants." Still, many pundits point out that the major networks have shown dozens of humiliating images of Iraqis surrendering, tied, sometimes stripped or with bags over their heads, and occasionally shown corpses.

July 23, 2003. Rumsfeld says the US will release photos of the bodies of Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein.

Sec. Rumsfeld, could you explain in what way the Geneva Convention has changed in the last four months since you criticized Iraq for releasing humiliating images of captured or dead soldiers?