Is it really ethical?

[DJcole]

should we take out sadam with a sniper?
i mean do you think the government has order a sniping mission and if not do u think we should or why havent we order the mission?

[DarkCyrstal]

Oh course it is ok. What are we gonna do? Call him out a duel. Ohh yea they can battle pokemon cards and the loser dies. Yea, got to make this fair. And they have ordered a special OPS sniper mission long before the war.

[Commander-K25]

At 4/6/03 12:24 PM, DJcole wrote: should we take out sadam with a sniper?
i mean do you think the government has order a sniping mission and if not do u think we should or why havent we order the mission?

They've had hundreds, maybe thousands of special ops undercover in Baghdad since October. That's why I seriously doubt the authenticity of that tape showing him walking through the crowd. If he shows his face, he's gonna get a bullet through it.

[NEMESiSZ]

In wartime, any enemy combatant can be killed. Because Saddam controls the military, he is considered a target.

If we weren't at war though, it would be against the rules of engagement.

[karasz]

true BUT i would have been all for bribing an Iraqi Shi'a, Kurd, or hell even an Israeli that looks like an arabian... AH i love breaking international law... its all the rage now-a-days...

[bumcheekcity]

At 4/6/03 12:24 PM, DJcole wrote: should we take out sadam with a sniper?
i mean do you think the government has order a sniping mission and if not do u think we should or why havent we order the mission?

we havent done it cos we know he has body doubles. which one is the real saddam?

[cylon]

Well you'd have to find him, first, assuming he is still alive.

Haven't coalition assassins already taken out a bunch of highly ranked Iraqi officials?

[Commander-K25]

At 4/6/03 03:24 PM, experiment_b wrote: Well you'd have to find him, first, assuming he is still alive.

Haven't coalition assassins already taken out a bunch of highly ranked Iraqi officials?

We may never know.

As for the doubles, we'll shoot anyway. If they get killed, well, that's what you get for standing in for a dictator that is about to be toppled. Not exactly a smart thing to do.

[bumcheekcity]

At 4/6/03 07:20 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:

At 4/6/03 03:24 PM, experiment_b wrote: Well you'd have to find him, first, assuming he is still alive.

Haven't coalition assassins already taken out a bunch of highly ranked Iraqi officials?

We may never know.

As for the doubles, we'll shoot anyway. If they get killed, well, that's what you get for standing in for a dictator that is about to be toppled. Not exactly a smart thing to do.

yer, but it takes time and a hell of a lot of money to send iun a trained assassin. the cost is phenomenl. they cant sens in people to take out al his doubles, its just not possible.

[aviewaskewed]

At 4/6/03 12:24 PM, DJcole wrote: should we take out sadam with a sniper?
i mean do you think the government has order a sniping mission and if not do u think we should or why havent we order the mission?

At this point...I think it's okay...I'm applying a consequentialist argument of course, I think it would be better to just shoot him in the head at the dinner table than to just keep pushing towards him slowly, call him out, make him surrender, and then cart him off to jail, and lose more lives on both sides of the conflict. May be flawed or faulty logic sure but...that is what I think right now, I don't quite agree with the war, but I can't be ignorant to what a horrible human being Saddam Hussein is.