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The one hitch is that, having died after an intense gun battle, they now become "martyrs who went down fighting hard".If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
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Well...it's not like they were exactly "spreaders of love and peace" when they were alive, even inside Saddam's government, not to mention among the masses....so their "martyrdom" will only inspire the worst of Saddam loyalists.
But you're right...this doesn't mean the end of the resistance, not by a longshot, as long as Daddy's still around, etc.DULCE BELLUM INEXPERTISComment
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Have you seen the pic of the house they were in? It looks like we opened up with a dozen anti-tank weapons..
I have this imagine of the Soldier boys surrounding the hide out going "Boys,this is the Utah State police. Come outside with the monkey, and put your hands in the air."Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Call me crazy but the circumstances of their demise doesn't lead me to the conclusion that they were the ones in charge of any group opposing the US. It looks more like they were trying to hide out. So don't get your hopes up that somehow opposition will be hampered by their death.Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul TighComment
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I'm not...
But I wonder what they were doing in Mosul (so close to Kurdish-controlled areas)Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Mosul was populated with Arabs, and now many of them are afraid the Kurds will try to kick them out and regain the city: these folks are there due to Saddam, so it follows that Saddam will have loyalists there.Originally posted by Lonestar
I'm not...
But I wonder what they were doing in Mosul (so close to Kurdish-controlled areas)If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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no effectAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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While I'm the last to cry for these guys it does look a bit like cold blooded murder. After all there were only four guys of whom one was a kid.
Especially since administration figures have basically said all along that they were going to kill SH and his sons IIRC.
I'm pretty sure that's against the Geneva convention.Only feebs vote.Comment
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Originally posted by Agathon
While I'm the last to cry for these guys it does look a bit like cold blooded murder. After all there were only four guys of whom one was a kid.
Especially since administration figures have basically said all along that they were going to kill SH and his sons IIRC.
I'm pretty sure that's against the Geneva convention.
They hadtheir chance to surrender. Often. Boo frickin' hooToday, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Do you really think the stand off would have lasted as long as it did if the objective had been to kill them.Originally posted by Agathon
While I'm the last to cry for these guys it does look a bit like cold blooded murder. After all there were only four guys of whom one was a kid.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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They were fugitives, and if there was a gun battle, one must assume they were armed (why would they not be armed? For thier own safety at least.)
And yes, the US as the military occupier CAN declare someone a fugitive: it is who they treat them that matters.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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If The United States had wanted to kill them, we'd have just bombed the Hell out of it, not surround the place w/200 men and keep them contained for a few hours.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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I have no idea of the specifics. I only know that the language flying around before the war was that they were going to kill them.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Do you really think the stand off would have lasted as long as it did if the objective had been to kill them.Only feebs vote.Comment
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Maybe They were Enemy combatantsOriginally posted by Agathon
I'm pretty sure that's against the Geneva convention.
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