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This is a U.S. military handout photo released in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, July 24, 2003 reportedly of the body of Saddam Hussein's son Qusai who was killed last July 22 by U.S. forces in a raid on a house in the town of Mosul, northern Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. government handout)
The U.S. military released photographs today showing the bodies of Uday, above, and Qusay Hussein.
the Last time I was Talking to myself . I got into such a heated argument . that is why I swore I never talk to that guy again. you know what it worked now no buddy talking to me.
Pity we're too civilized for it, but the message would sure get around if we put their heads on stakes in downtown Bagdad. That's the kind of message that sinks home over there
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” - Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez
Interesting. They can't show pics of our dead wounded soldiers, but we can theirs.
We didn't want to, but felt it necessary to prove to the Iraqi people they are indeed dead. And the hope is that will stop some of the attacks against us (less troops killed). Eventually. It was for a good reason.
This is a totally different situation and set of circumstances than when they paraded our dead.
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Yea, not like were just showing dead or wounded people at random, these are the leaders (X) and the deaths need to be confirmed and proven! Not like it's just a bunch of beaten mangled randomly flashed photos of just who ever!
And why not anyway, We are constantly shown the inocent victems of war injured or dead. Woman and children just living thier daily lives in fear and then in the wrong place at the wrong time when a bomb goes off or caught in a cross fire, and we are shown those pics! So why not those that actually count for something like the dead enemy and leaders!!
Excessive Force?
The U.S. military is celebrating the deaths of Saddam’s sons. But some are questioning whether Uday and Qusay could—and should—have been taken alive
http://washingtontimes.com/national/200 ... -1675r.htm
The commander bristled when reporters in Baghdad, including one shouting Briton, suggested the mission had been a failure because Uday and Qusai were not taken alive and put on trial. Other journalists complained that it was a lopsided fight.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/944259.asp
But one Madison, Wisc., reader writes to say: “Thank you for reporting on the skepticism over the perceived necessity of killing Saddam Hussein’s sons. I too think they would have been more useful alive than dead. I am also afraid that the arrogant and unilateral ‘shoot-first’ policy of the Bush administration is going to come back to haunt us. It is so refreshing to finally see an American news source act as more than stenographers to those in power.”
F@ck, MAYBE they should have let them live just long enough to beat the location of Daddy out of them, but I seriously doubt Dad would have trusted them with that info anyway.
Otherwise they saved us a lot of money and aggravation by killing them instead of capturing them.
The way things are going if they'd been captured it would only have INCREASED attacks against out soldiers.
Besides, if it had become a standoff, there would probably have been guerrillas coming out of the wood work to harrass the team attacking the house.
I'm all for human rights, but these two were vermin, and they chose to stand and fight. I'm sure we offered to let them surrender, but THEY decided to go out in a blaze of glory, so f@ck 'em.
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” - Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez
