Posted on 07/24/2003 10:48:01 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:05:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Bush administration released photographs yesterday of the mangled corpses of Uday and Qusai Hussein in a blunt message to the Iraqi people that the brutal brothers — and their regime — are indeed dead.
After debating the issue Wednesday inside the administration, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he took the extraordinary step based on one important calculation: convincing Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's regime is not coming back may ease the fears of people willing to turn in insurgents who are attacking U.S. troops.
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