Why Weren’t Uday and Qusay Taken Alive? Excessive Force?

 It was much-needed tangible proof that America was making progress in the war in Iraq. After several weeks of drooping morale and a daily, if single-digit body count, the U.S. military on Tuesday announced its soldiers had killed Saddam Hussein’s sons in a ferocious firefight in their Mosul hideout.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS crowed about it, troops around Iraq high-fived each other, friendly Iraqis fired their guns in the air in celebration. Even the stock markets rose on the news.
        Certainly only a few diehards mourned the passing of Uday and Qusay Hussein; the regime’s Caligula and its Heir Apparent were if anything despised and feared even more than their dad. But as details became clearer of the raid that eliminated what the U.S. military calls High Value Targets (HVTs) Nos. 2 and 3, a lot of people in the intelligence community were left wondering: why weren’t they just taken alive?

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez answers questions at a press conference in Baghdad on Wednesday

At a news briefing today, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, squirmed his way past that question repeatedly. It was, he said, the decision of the commander on the ground based on the circumstances and his judgment...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/943255.asp?0cl=c1

I'm sure the two know everything about the WMD and the Iraqi nuclear program!

Just when I get to feel the darkest and there's no hope and everyone in America has gone insane, a reporter stands up and says, 'We're taking our country back!'

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

I think this is just a red herring...my opinion don't know what you guys think

Bush is pro-life. Thats why they were killed. O wait a minute.

TYY

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