"Do any governments say that?"
All we can give here is our own opinions based on what we read and see - the alternative appears to be the blind faith in governments and experts that you hide your arguments behind.
He could have been taken alive, tried and punished; there was no intention of doing so - he was executed on the spot - leaving behind a threat of reprisals which could be aimed at any of us anywhere.
Now answer the question - are you now advocating that it would have been acceptible to drop a bomb on the compound killing an unkown number of non- combatants - you shrieked liar before, now you appear to be defending the idea
Jim Carroll