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I don't think people understand the concept of what a "firefight" really is. The firefight didn't end when the last shots were fired, because at the time they didn't know it was the last shots to be fired. The fire fight ends when the invading force with guns leaves. Until that moment, it's still a firefight - it was a combat situation, and they could have been shot at by the last person standing in the last room they looked in.
I've said this before on GFY - this was not our local police department trying to end the situation peacefully. This was the elite of the Navy Seals; They went in well armed into a foreign country to raid a compound with armed men. They don't walk in and say "put your weapons down" or "please". They burst into a room and put you down instantly, an if not, they are shooting you dead. There is zero room for discussion about this.
Did the story change? Depends on who's telling it. They originally described a "fierce firefight". Doesn't sound like it was "fierce", but when ever a dozen Navy Seals drop into a compound from helicopters and get shot at, well, call it what you want.
What stuns me is that we just committed an act of war - an armed military operation into a foreign country where people were shot and killed by US forces....
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