Recall this article we ran a while ago about Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's most dangerous biological weapons and living proof that human evil is real. Now there are reports they may have been killed in a major raid near Mosul. Pentagon is using language like "reasonably confident". We'll see.
UPDATE: Well, kiss mah grits... looks like they got the sons of bitches:
bq. "We're certain that Uday and Qusay were killed," Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference in Baghdad. "We've used multiple sources to identify the individuals."
All just one day after we published that Special Forces letter from Iraq which promised:
bq. "P.S. A couple of you asked me about Curly and his two sons, Dumb and Dumber. I still think we got him and one son, but the slugs may have gotten away. If they are alive, I can't believe they are hanging around here. Even Curly isn't that stupid ... then again. He might be in Syria or Lebanon. If he is, he's too moronic to keep quiet, then we'll get him. I promise."
And Mosul, yet... isn't that kind of like Josef Mengele trying to hide out in a quiet suburb of Tel-Aviv?
UPDATE:
· Our coverage continues.
· The shift in U.S. Tactics that made the difference.
I would have preferred they be caught alive, but dead is OK, too.
Well, a surprising source has caught some of these guys. Read this news. And I never thought that organization was worth a darn, but they've bagged quite a catch!
Interesting but diversionary. It doesn't change what the U.S. did or how it chose to do it. I hope this will contribute to some peace for the sake of the Iraqis
P... OK, that one was pretty funny.
And Dave wins the Sour Grapes Award!
What we did: We freed a nation from a fascist dictatorship that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, and hundreds of thousands of its neighbors.
How we chose to do it: Open debate that lasted for more than a year. Hell, it lasted over a decade. I know you're complaining about sixteen words, but since we're all grown ups here, we'll admit that gripe's just a bit of political log-rolling, OK?
Two (maybe three!) of the monstrous heirs of a monster have been killed. Try not to act like it's a bad thing, OK?
Oh happy day. Now if they can just kill Saddam all hope of a restoration of the bastards will come to an end.
On the phone with my mother she yelled out, "Woohoo! The Hussein Boys are dead!" hehe Hussein Boys. It's like the Hardy Boys, only psychotic.
It seems that the complaint is in process rather than results. But the whole purpose of a particular process IS the result you hope to get. You flip the light switch in order the lights on. You don't punch the toilet handle, because that does not work. That won't turn the lights on.
I am still at a loss on how Bush lied. MI-6 is still saying their intel is accurate. Saddam and his boys were bad guys, as bad if not worse than Hitler. They needed to go.
And now they are gone. How is a lot less important than the fact that they are gone.
Well, more psychotic anyway.
I don't believe we want to capture Sadamm alive. In the middle east that translates to a hostage situation, a political process they have engaged in for over 1,000 years. Putting his head on a pike is enough to send the message and there will be no counter of hostage taking by the other side and no whinny-ass second guessing about it from the limp-wristed liberals. Whatta say Kate?
What is the differenceNone.And if you think that what goes on there dosent go on here or in the US,your sleeping.Every day within every generation some leader,government or agency within the country,kidnapps, kills,hangs,inslaves,tortures,starves and oppresses its people.The first known terrorists amoungest many the KKK.Get over yourself America
you chickens are coming home to roost
What is the differenceNone.And if you think that what goes on there dosent go on here or in the US,your sleeping.Every day within every generation some leader,government or agency within the country,kidnapps, kills,hangs,inslaves,tortures,starves and oppresses its people.The first known terrorists amoungest many the KKK.Get over yourself America
you chickens are coming home to roost