Now that the new standard for pre-emptive war is to murder the legitimate leader of another sovereign nation and his entire family, an "artist's rendering" of Shrub reaping what he sows would surely be an excellent political statement. I am not sure these two were murdered as saddam's sons (although obviously
Eric Cordian wrote: they were, and were no doubt given priority over equally worthy targets) but as authority figures in the former government. That they were also (if they could be captured) bloody useful hostages against actions by their father probably didn't go without notice either. However, if strafeing an occupied house with helecopter gunships, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns after a cursory "surrender or die" is ignored, based on military intel (which as the WMD fiasco shows is worthless if the PR spin department are demanding raw access to unfiltered intel and filtering, not on reliability but on closeness of match to the desired outcome) is to be the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be "ok" provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes?