CNN and other news stations are advertising "Sons of Saddam", which almost sounds like "Sons of Satan." The death of Uday and Qusay Hussein delivers a huge psychological blow to any resistance in Iraq. However, their deaths doesn't seem to have stopped the attacks as two more U.S. soldiers were killed and nine injured today. I'm glad we didn't capture them alive. I don't think they would have allowed us to capture them alive. They probably would have killed themselves before allow capture.
I feel that the U.S. is treading a fine line between rebuilding a nation and trying to bring some semblance of order back to the country. There was almost no period of true occupation with a police state in charge. In order to stop these attacks, a police state needs to be declared and the pockets of resistance stamped out. These pockets of resistance not only present a danger to U.S. soldiers, but also any innocent bystanders. Only once military attacks have stopped for a period of time can the country be prepared for rebuilding. The White House and others governments were too hasty in their pursuit of rebuilding Iraq. You can't turn a twenty plus year dictatorship into a democracy in a few months.
