The Son also Demises

Qusay and Udai Hussein are dead....Sonny and Sonny-er Corleone have gone to the last round up.
Well whoop-dee-do!
Okay I kid, the world is a better place without them, blah, blah,blah and I could hear Tom Friedman's sigh of relief all the way here in Menotomy.
Ghod, what new lyrical "it was all worth it" tripe is being typed into Friedman's word processor even as I write this?
One can only imagine.
However the more I think about Udai and Qusay's final firefight, the more I suspect they had no clue as to the whereabouts of their father....Old Saddam cut those two loose the second the bombers appeared over Baghdad.
The Leader's whereabouts was too valuable a bargaining chip for Saddam's notoriously brutal issue to play with.
Yup, Saddam is in the Ukraine somewhere or possibly the P.R.C. or maybe North Korea (if his escape plan was good and he had outside help)...he has got low level flunkies to disseminate his fight-to-the-death audiotapes and a good choice of virgins to mix up the cocktails.
In all a nice set up.
Meanwhile our soldiers are still getting killed on the average of one a day.
That can't be good, regardless of how chipper the White House may feel.
Hell I suspect the troops shot Udai and Qusay dead out of desperate desire for closure and an early return home - screw orders from Headquarters....morale may be that low.
But whatever the circumstances, a early demise for Saddam and his kinder is a reasonable excuse to cut the occupation short with flags flying and honor intact.
Keep that in mind as this thing unfolds, La Famiglia Arbusto is famously unable to stick to an unpopular course, they'll look for a exit pronto when the polls turn decisively against them.
Of course conservatives are overjoyed to see Baghdadians shooting off their guns in celebration over Udai and Qusay's timely end...me? I'm appalled to see so many Iraqis casually armed to the teeth.
If there are any U.S. Forces a bloggin' hyar today, keep yer heads down one and all...
We're trying to do our best for you all back here.
Y'know the people who didn't want you to go there in the first place.