# Were Saddams Sons Murdered ?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 25, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-saddams-sons-murdered/190830 "2003-07-25T08:24:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-saddams-sons-murdered/190830/21 "2003-07-25T12:06:33Z")

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Those two pieces of shit should have been dragged through the streets of Baghdad (the Mussolini treatment). Ditto for their father. Then watch the celebration.

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-saddams-sons-murdered/190830/22 "2003-07-25T12:27:47Z")

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Murder, as you rightly imply, is a legal judgement that the taking of a human life is illegal.  
Since the taking of these lives was not illegal, the answer is, “No.”

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-saddams-sons-murdered/190830/23 "2003-07-25T13:07:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SimonX \*  
> \*\*Murder, as you rightly imply, is a legal judgement that the taking of a human life is illegal.  
> Since the taking of these lives was not illegal, the answer is, “No.” \*\*

And that, of course is _your_ opinion but that does not settle it for the rest of us who think it _may_ have been illegal.

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> the president gets to decide whether or not the deaths of those two were necessary to his prosecution of the war.

Care to explain why he has no limits in deciding this? Or what are the limits? Could they have been shot after they surrendered? I do not think the US president has any authority to order the commission of a crime and the military are not obligated to follow unlawful orders. The OP proposes and I agree that there is a distinct possibility that the killing was not a necessity of a war operation and therefore maybe a crime.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-saddams-sons-murdered/190830/24 "2003-07-25T13:27:07Z")

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I think the factual questions have been answered, so I’ll close this thread. Interpretation of the facts is better suited to the Great Debates forum.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ

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