Can we cut the "Hussein's kids" stuff?

Hey, this is the first post I started.

I've seen a few threads were posters have said things like "If they were your kids, what would you do?" and "Now, we are killing the children of our enemies" and similiar ideas. This is not overwhelming but I've seen enough of it to be bothered.

Let's get one thing straight Uday and Qusay were not innocent bystanders. There were #2a and #2b in the regime, controlled the media, controlled a portion of the military, controlled the sports teams, were rich, were powerful and were set to have the blood feud to end all blood feuds when Saddam passed the torch. From all accounts, both were likely more brutal than their father and had just as much blood on their hands as him. In fact, Uday appeared to be a special brand of sociopath, if Iraqi athletes are to be believed.

So, let's stop equating this with whacking the Bush twins and other such nonsense.

I repeat what I said earlier. Their deaths do not justify the war or dismiss the chaos of the aftermath. But, as far as I am concerned, the planet is better off without them.

I wholeheartedly agree.

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Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfowitz, Newt, Lott, Delay, Saddam, Charles Taylor, Michael Issa, John Rowland, Kim Jong Il, Slobodan Milosovic, Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay... That's a good start. Mind you, I am not advocating violence, nor am I wishing ill to befall them, just people whom I think the planet would be better off without.

even though those are commonly held beliefs.

The information you concur with comes from the bush regime, which doesn't have a record of credibility and reliability.

There is no concuring information, or even accomodating actions from the iraqi people on these 'opinions' about the hussein family either.

Just a lot of rumors and hearsay with no reliable or collaborating sources.

account of what their lives were like. The report about the athletes was confirmed by both the IOC and the USOC.

agree with first post that is.

Maybe they think Uday and Qusay would make nice houseguests.

They were grown men who, even though they were dependent, were in NO WAY kids..

Sadaam may have been their sperm donor, but I never saw him as a particularly loving Daddy..

They were nasty thugs whose passing will only make the world a better place.. The WAY they were killed and the REASON for their deaths are the only troubling things for me..

A 6 hour "fight" , complete with helicopters and 200 men vs a cripple, a bodyguard, a 14 yr old and the other brother is what stirkes me as completely ODD to say the least..

The person who stood to collect the $30Million probably is happy that they are dead, so he can collect his money and retire to the Riviera, but for our military to not capture them is ridiculous..

They could have had the services cut to the house, and just surround it and wait them out.. They did not WANT them alive..

Dead men tell no tales..:)

I'm not going to get into that discussion, because I don't know enough about the situation on the ground. But there may have been other options.

But I've seen some odd sympathy for the brothers here, and that disturbed me.

Orders from on high!

1. Do not take these people alive.

2. Do not use munitions that will destroy or burn the bodies beyound recognition.

3. Do not take these people alive.


I believe, I believe sombody is bullshiting me.

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regardless of these two may or may not have done , they were MURDERED by the bushies. MURDERED.

So then, in your opinion it is OK for the president of the United States to decide who the planet is better off without?

were murderers them selves... Kinda karmic, eh?

as it turns out, there are no WMD, no threat to US - the entire war is an international crime. In this context : SADDAM IS AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER along with the thousands of Itaquis we murdered. So are his sons. Whatever crimes they committed - it's for the Itaqis to deal with that - we HAD NO JURISDICTION TO EXECUTE THEM!

I suppose we could have risked even more of our soldier's lives just to capture these pukes, but that would have been very dumb.

The GOP controlled media calls them a couple of psychopaths and you just take their word on it. The dems should remind america that bush and the GOP and the media lied about the iraq uranium plans and therefore we should never trust them on anything ever again.

C'mon. I've heard many foreign news sources talk of their evil exploits, too. These guys weren't angels.

Now, should they have been assassinated? Probably not. Will I shed a tear for them? Definitely not.

Unless Amnesty International is part of the Bush-controlled media, what I say is true. I've known about these fuckers for years.

Let's not shed any crocodile tears.

While few, if any, of us will mourn their passing. We believe it sets a dangerous precedent to illegally attack countries and kill off the deposed leaders family members, no matter what type of s.o.b's they might have been.

they were killed because they were top deputies.

It would have been better to capture them, of course, but competence hasn't been the strong suit of the people running this war from the get-go.

Personally, I didn't and don't support the preventative invasion and occupation of a country that is not an imminent threat to the United States. I agree with you that that is a dangerous precedent. But the "family members" part is irrelevant.

There are plenty of dead Iraqis to mourn. These two aren't even on my list.

Those who try to elicit sympathy and/or understanding for the Hussein family of thugs perfectly fit the caricature of the Left that Ann Coulter successfully sells to a frighteningly large part of the country. Nice work, kids.