As the old saying goes Jeger, two wrongs don't make a right. Because someone is guilty of war crimes and human rights abuses, doesn't justify another wrongdoing, just for the sake of political expediency. Also, I don't think it is accurate to assume that because we are critical of the ways US CentCom and the Bush administration have (mis)handled events in post-war Iraq, that it means we are defending the Hussein regime, or suggesting that the sons weren't criminals.

I think many an American and British citizen would much rather have seen the sons taken alive, so that they could have been tried, and we could have gotten more information out of them. Like where all the money is that they looted, which could be returned to the Iraqi people, and aid in the reconstruction of the country. Or that they might have been able to provide information about the whereabouts of other "high interest targets" as US CentCom refers to the other wanted members of the regime.