People we say goodbye to in 2021

McAfee's wife says she spoke to him earlier in the day and that he promised to call her later in the evening in response to an unsourced claim that a suicide note was found in McAfee's pocket in his cell. That he had been bunking with another prisoner also makes it appear that he may have been suicided.

Did he off himself rather than be extradited to the US to face tax delinquency charges or did people who feared that McAfee would tip others to information gleaned from accessing back doors in his software take him out?

Regardless of the truth, the various stories I've read about McAfee since his death suggest that all the controversy would please him.

I felt we had no choice but to take out the dictator.  At the time and to this day, I felt he was playing "chicken" with us.  The issue of WMD was not in dispute by either party.  He had used WMD on his own people.  Then he started threatening us and acting like he had an even bigger stockpile, thwarting inspections at every step.  No, we had to take him out.  

I start with Shock & Awe because it was aimed at the Iraqi people, who were never really the problem.  To be sure the lack of planning added to the initial failure.  They've played follow the leader over there, the people just want to know who they should pay their bribes taxes to.  The Iraqi guard were equally disloyal.  With better strategy, they could have become assets.  It was a total failure to understand the enemy, a problem that's ongoing when it comes to the mideast, generally.

If instead of taking out infrastructure, we had conducted shock & awe by destroying each of Hussein's palaces in spectacular fashion, we would have made a step toward winning the hearts of the ordinary Iraqi.  Making their mostly miserable lives even worse only made them hate us exponentially more then they might have before.