Can anyone give me a satisfactory answer WHY we killed Udai and Kusai?

[David Floyd]

MtG again misses the point.

Oh well, I'm not going to turn this into a threadjack. My first post was pretty much on topic, but any further ones will drift, I'm sure.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
i like those assumptions you make, gp.

Meaning you think they show the author's thinking? Or meaning that this is your thinking?

[TCO]

Get lost Mitty.

[Victor Galis]

Because it was more politically convienient for them to die.

[Dinner]

I wouldn't like to see these guys turned into some sort of heros who valiantly resisted the infidels for 2 months. Who would come to their rescue? Maybe some of those people who have been ambushing soldiers? It's possible they would have slipped away.

Soldiers are not police they are soldiers and they are trained to go in and eliminate the problem.

[SlowwHand]

Three things.

1) I can't believe the question has to be asked.
2) I can't believe it warranted any discussion.
3) Good riddance to murdering bastards.

[Victor Galis]

Slow,

1) No, it doesn't have to be asked. The answer is fairly self-evident.
2) Not everyone sees it as self evident.
3) As much as I want to disagree with you on every possible issue, I can't quite disagree with you there.

[Sava]

1) I can't believe the question has to be asked.
2) I can't believe it warranted any discussion.
3) Good riddance to murdering bastards.

[GePap]

The way the battle was described on TV news:

Troops got the tip and surrounded the building: a long gun battle started: according to sources 4 US soldiers were wounded. After the long battle, it was decided to attack the building with missiles. 10 TOW were launched against the Mansion, which is what is believed to have killed the 3 adults in the House. Soldiers then went into the house, where they met resistance: they fired at the person shooting at them and killed him, the him being Qusay's 14 year old son (it might have been Uday's).

My guess is then that there were more than 2 AK's in the house.

[KrazyHorse]

This discussion is idiotic.

[yavoon]

cuz the marines were there! hooorah!

[KrazyHorse]

They were fighting back, and were of paramount military importance.

[Japher]

It's a whole lot easier to dance on someone's grave when they are actually dead!

[The Templar]

The simple answer to the question: they didn't surrender.

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
I was wondering how long it would be before the Lima Delta's crawled out of the woodwork to whine about why we killed a couple of mass murderers, torturers and all around thugs who decided to hole up and fight it out.

I'd rather see them playing butt bongo with Bubba in a cell (and washing his laundry) for the next several decades. But to each his own.

[Flubber]

With the only choices being attack or siege, attack is the clear answer . Why give any remaining Saddam loyalists a focal point ? Why stand around impotently because they refuse to come out?

If they had disarmed and come out I would have hoped for their execution after proper trials--However I am relieved that there will be no such trial to serve as another rallying point for any Saddam loyalists-- It was quick and now its over.