abhisarda's Journal: why weren't those 2 guys taken alive?

Why weren't they taken alive? Why wasn't tear gas and the SWAT Team used? If they were concerned about bombs, why didn't they send in robots to check who was there or not? ---

eglamkowski, you do have a point there that millions would be spent and maybe those europeans would squeak at their death sentence.

But take a look at this from this point- If those 2 guys were captured alive, they could have been tortured until they gave up information on past weapons programs.

I used to think that Iraq had WMD programs but was of the opinion that it might use them in the war. But they haven't turned up yet and I believe the weapons programs have not been running for a few years now.

But if the army got those guys alive, and they talked about past WMD programs, then the army could claim that these weapons programs still existed a few months before the US went to war.

This would give the US credibility among the Europeans. Which would mean that the EU would provide billions in aid and peace keeping forces that the US desperately needs(why would it otherwise send its chiefs of staff to pak to ask them to send forces to iraq?

All this would make life a lot easier for Blair and the americans...

because...

[eglamkowski]

They didn't really want to take them alive.

I mean, then there'd have to be a trial that could conceivably be lost (probably on technicalities), not to mention millions in taxpayer money on prison fees and lawyers and security and who knows what else.

And then all those wimpy europeans who can't stomach the death penalty would block any attempt at real justice, giving them life sentences instead of the capital punishment they deserved. And who in their right mind would want to spend the money keeping those