Our losses are a terrible thing however you look at it, but they were lost in an effort to remove an evil regime from power, liberate a country and play offense on another field rather than defense here, among other things. Not just to capture saddam. I'm tossed up on the idea of death penalty for this guy. On one hand I would definitely be standing in the looooonng line of folks that want a piece of him and make him die in a fashion as dragged out and painful as possible. On the other hand, if we do put him down, his followers and islamic extremists will hail him as a martyre and only give them more reason to build on the ideals of terrorism. My cousin is a military interrogator, though not likely the one to work over saddam, but if his colleagues are anything like him, they'll have him singin' like a canary in no time. Time will tell. Either way this is great news indeed.
Many thanks and prayers to our troops. There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.