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The unlamented deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons at the hands of soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division last week put me in mind of an old Texas saying. A sheriff investigating a homicide asks the perpetrator "why'd you kill him?" The perpetrator answers, "'cause he needed killin'." So it is with Uday and Qusay, Saddam's loyalist guerrillas, whether Iraqi or foreign-born, as well as Saddam himself. As Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz observed recently on Meet the Press, Saddam's Baathist loyalists constitute "a criminal gang of many thousands of rapists, murderers, and torturers." The 101st just bagged two...