A Clean Picture

American tv news still won't show the tape of U.S. POWs and KIAs, and dead Iraqi soldiers seem to be faceless, too. With the reports of so many dead and wounded, it seems strange there are so few pictures of blood, bodies and death for the public to digest. This is not a political position. War is ugly, brutal, bloody, haunting and gruesome.

''The pictures were disgusting,'' said Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid of the Central Command of the POW/KIA tape made by the Iraqis.

Of course, he's right.