Breaking News: Saddam's two sons are killed by US Special Forces.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Lonestar
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.

Did you see the pics of the house?

Anyway, don't be such a tool. Aren't you a soldier? I'll bet you a sum of money that you'd be glad of such conventions if you were ever a prisoner of war. Ask my grandfather, he spent 5 years in a POW camp. Fortunately there were treaties in place so he was fed properly and treated humanely.

Rules like that exist for the benefit of military personnel and non combatants. Ask that Lynch girl (who's not bad lookin' BTW ).

[Agathon]

Originally posted by CorpusScorpius

Maybe They were Enemy combatants

Don't laugh. If they were firing at US troops then the assault was entirely justified. As I said, no one knows the specifics yet, so why don't we give your lot the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

[CorpusScorpius]

Originally posted by Agathon


Don't laugh. If they were firing at US troops then the assault was entirely justified. As I said, no one knows the specifics yet, so why don't we give your lot the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

I am not laughing that people lost their lives. I am laughing that on another thread a debate has been raging about the term Enemy Combatants

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Agathon
I have no idea of the specifics.

That explains your statement.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by CorpusScorpius

I am not laughing that people lost their lives. I am laughing that on another thread a debate has been raging about the term Enemy Combatants

Oh, I misunderstood.

A thousand apologies.

[CorpusScorpius]

Ag....no need to apologize allthough it is appreciated

[Agathon]

Originally posted by CorpusScorpius
Ag....no need to apologize allthough it is appreciated

Manners maketh the man, even if he is a subversive commie traitor.

[Kuciwalker]

That's the Guantanamo thread, right?

I stopped posting in it after a while...

[Dr Strangelove]

I wonder, given that they were securely contained and that their besiegers allowed the action to go on for so long it would seem reasonable that the US forces were indeed trying to take them alive. Might they have committed suicide?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Azazel
murderers! Why no trial ?! why no due process?!!

I think he was being sacrastic since Israelis get alot of **** about doing this sort of thing all the time.

[Berzerker]

Playing with lives:

I just heard coalition forces launched the raid after a walk-in informant offered up the location of these guys. Now, why do we, and the Iraqi resistance need to know that? I'm sure that would give the remaining loyalists reason to fear each other, even if just a little, but wouldn't that also mean Iraqis under any suspicion are now in danger? Would you want to be murdered because a loyalist thought you were an informant because of a heightened, even paranoid fear resulting from the knowledge that an informant gave up Saddam's sons? I suppose the loyalists already fear potential informants, so maybe this information is inconsequential, but if I was an Iraqi with information, I'd certainly feel threatened by the mind games being played.

[Kuciwalker]

The tip was that his sons were there, not that they were loyalists

[Berzerker]

Coalition forces are fighting loyalists, and I certainly consider the sons as "loyalists" - loyal to remaining in power.

[Giancarlo]

Good riddance to two awful murderers!

[Ned]

If the 101st Airborne were trying to kill them, they would have surrounded the house and then dropped three or four smart bombs on the place.

I find it incredible though that the two sons wanted to go down fighting. Did they fear something worse than death if they were captured?