I agree. Also, let’s not forget the “humiliation” factor. We could have gotten a huge amount of closure out of that. I know it seems silly, but I do feel a bit cheated.
Me too. I would much rather we had captured him alive and waterboarded the crap out of him (and worse), all the while telling the world he was dead. Later, when we had gotten all we could out of him, we could always put him to bed with the fishes, and nobody would be any the wiser.