[r9etb]

Dead is as dead does.

Yes -- but "killed by their own bullets" is easy to for us spin into "cowards," whereas Saddam's bitter-enders can turn "killed by American bullets" into "martyrs."

[steveegg]

It doesn't matter who killed them; the "dead-enders" in both Iraq and the US will spin this as "martyrs". Nazi Germany reported Hitler's suicide as a "heroic" last stand against the Russians.