Rhodey, Gyrich, and the rest of the Initiative staff are loathsome slugs who have helped create this world through their disdain for law, justice, and humanity. They and the other pro-regs created Norman Osborne, emperor of the world, and it is only just that they should be destroyed by him.
Not, of course, that they'll get what is coming to them, since they are, per Marvel, Great Big Heroes for said contempt for law, justice, and humanity.
But what shit they are forced to eat is certainly enjoyable.