Asked why the mission didn't focus on capturing the brothers for intelligence purposes,
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference there was fear the brothers might have
had an escape tunnel.
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Troops used bullhorns initially to call the men out, and two unsuccessful sorties into
the mansion resulted in the show of fire power after six hours.
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If we were so worried the brothers would scamper away why did we ask them to give themselves
up via bullhorn? It seems to me that if there was a tunnel they would have used it. If I was
worried about a tunnel escape I would have opted for your basic no-knock surprise raid.
And it seems likely that the informant who turned the Husseins in was the owner of the house,
who would be in a good position to know if there were tunnels built under his own house,
and if they were, where they went.
If there are 150,000 American troops in Iraq and we're spending $400,000,000,000 a month
on them, that works out to $26,666 a month/soldier, or $952 a day/soldier. And this money
is just for the military, not for any of the reconstruction efforts. Just what are we
actually spending this money on? It sure isn't salaries.
We've captured something like 36 out of the 55 "deck of cards" high Iraqi mucky-mucks.
Noticed how none of them have gone for a plea-bargain deal and ratted out where those
pesky WMDs are?
"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me" - Miles Davis
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government." - Lenny Bruce
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson
