{"id":1491,"date":"2003-07-22T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/is-this-right\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:32:09","slug":"is-this-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/is-this-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14023,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/meast\\\/07\\\/22\\\/sprj.irq.sons\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260107170535\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/meast\\\/07\\\/22\\\/sprj.irq.sons\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:55:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>If I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/07\/22\/sprj.irq.sons\/index.html\" title=\"CNN.com - Pentagon: Saddam's sons are dead - Jul. 22, 2003\">this news report<\/a> about the deaths of Saddam&#8217;s sons correctly, a six hour firefight pitting two hundred members of the 101^st^ Airborne Division <em>in addition to<\/em> a military task force against unspecified adversaries ended in four casualties. Two of those casualties were Qusay and Uday, the third was a teenage boy (possibly Qusay&#8217;s son), and the fourth apparently a bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I find it hard to believe that Qusay and Uday would have been in a villa with nothing but a teenage boy and a single bodyguard for company. Wouldn&#8217;t they have been far better protected than that? If it was just the four of them, how could three men and a boy hold off two hundred plus American soldiers for six hours? If it wasn&#8217;t just the four of them, what happened to their guards? How did <em>just<\/em> those four people die? And&#8230;and&#8230;and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This story has too many holes in it for me to take it at face value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, I find it hard to believe that Qusay and Uday would have been in a villa with nothing but a teenage boy and a single bodyguard for company. Wouldn&#8217;t they have been far better protected than that? If it was just the four of them, how could three men and a boy hold off two hundred plus American soldiers for six hours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}