Sunday, July 27, 2003
Hangingday :: Publishing :: London
Wouldn't it have been better to catch them and question them??
Hangingday :: Publishing :: London: "During a press conference following the death of Uday and Qusay Hussein, the American commander in Iraq, General Ricardo 'dirty' Sanchez was pressed by an unidentified British reporter about the decision to kill the occupants of the villa rather than attempting to capture them....
Reporter: The Americans are specialists in surrounding places, keeping people in then, holding up for a week if necessary making sure that they surrender. These guys only had, it appears, AK47s and you had [an] immense amount of firepower. Surely the possibility of the immense amount of information they could have provided the coalition, not to mention the trial they could have been put on for war crimes - there was a much greater possibility of victory for you if you could have surrounded that house and just waited for them to come out, even if they kept on shooting.
General: Sir, that is speculation.
Reporter: No sir, it's an operational question. Surely you must have considered this much more seriously....
General: Yes, it was considered and we chose the course of action that we took...
Reporter: Why, sir?
General: Next question.
Reporter: B..
General: Next question please.
It used to be that in war there were no easy answers, now it seems there are no answers of any kind. Why so shy? It's a reasonable enough question. I mean, just think of the insights those two men could have provided had been put on public trial...
The whereabouts of weapons of mass destruction
Where Saddam acquired the raw materials for his WMD programme
Which members of the current U.S. administration glad-handed Saddam during the Iran, Iraq war
Oh."
Hangingday :: Publishing :: London: "During a press conference following the death of Uday and Qusay Hussein, the American commander in Iraq, General Ricardo 'dirty' Sanchez was pressed by an unidentified British reporter about the decision to kill the occupants of the villa rather than attempting to capture them....
Reporter: The Americans are specialists in surrounding places, keeping people in then, holding up for a week if necessary making sure that they surrender. These guys only had, it appears, AK47s and you had [an] immense amount of firepower. Surely the possibility of the immense amount of information they could have provided the coalition, not to mention the trial they could have been put on for war crimes - there was a much greater possibility of victory for you if you could have surrounded that house and just waited for them to come out, even if they kept on shooting.
General: Sir, that is speculation.
Reporter: No sir, it's an operational question. Surely you must have considered this much more seriously....
General: Yes, it was considered and we chose the course of action that we took...
Reporter: Why, sir?
General: Next question.
Reporter: B..
General: Next question please.
It used to be that in war there were no easy answers, now it seems there are no answers of any kind. Why so shy? It's a reasonable enough question. I mean, just think of the insights those two men could have provided had been put on public trial...
The whereabouts of weapons of mass destruction
Where Saddam acquired the raw materials for his WMD programme
Which members of the current U.S. administration glad-handed Saddam during the Iran, Iraq war
Oh."
