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He Is the Very Model

by John Cole|  July 24, 20032:59 am| 5 Comments

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Major General Lambert, chief Atriette, dissects the operation that yielded the Hussein brothers, and once again, finds that the tactics were lacking:

We could have done a Noriega, no problem. Perp walk, Hague Tribunal, UN loves us, Europe throws some cash and more troops our way, and

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  1. 1.

    David Perron

    July 24, 2003 at 8:18 am

    No, it doesn’t.

  2. 2.

    cameron

    July 24, 2003 at 9:42 am

    Well, I have no idea if taking them alive was a viable option so I can’t really comment on wether it should have been done or not.

    However, I don’t find the idea of wanting them alive and having them do the “hague and perp walk thing” to be that “half baked”.

  3. 3.

    Pauly

    July 24, 2003 at 9:58 am

    It’s not half-baked, but you have to take into account reality too. These guys (like most terrorists and Saddam-loyal Iraqis) would rather die then get caught, and that’s what happened.

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    womanllee

    July 24, 2003 at 10:08 am

    If they were taken alive, and that I doubt were possible seeing as they seemed determined to fight till the death, I would hope that they would have been tried by an new judicial system developing in Iraq by the Iraqi people and sentenced to a very public, very Muslim beheading. But alas, they werent taken alive so the fathers of the girls that were raped, the athletes that were tortured and the relatives of thousands of shiites that were mass murdered will just have accept our form of justice..Saddam is still out there so there is still justice to be served. Perhaps the public beheading is reserved for him.

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    Matthew

    July 24, 2003 at 6:27 pm

    I think Lambert belongs right up there with Steve Gilliard’s “these guys went out like heroes” quip for lamest left-wing reaction to the deaths of Uday and Qusay. For the life of me, however, I don’t know why liberals are so upset when all we’re doing is applying Janet Reno’s tactics to Iraq rather than Waco.

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