Bush: Zarqawi death may turn tide in Iraq...is this turning the tide Mr. Boosh?

Question

As news of Mr. Zarqawi's death settled into homes across the country, Iraqis at lunch tables & in hot-afternoon living rooms found themselves wondering what, if anything, would be different. A relentless stream of killings and kidnappings has choked off the routines of life to a trickle, and the death of Mr. Zarqawi, while welcome, did not seem likely to stop the violence.

The painful, familiar beat resumed almost immediately. Five young women, one of them pregnant, were gunned down in a drive-by shooting outside a university, & SIX bombs, 4 of them in cars, killed 37 people and wounded 85 in largely Shiite areas in Baghdad.

Some Iraqis say the American military has exaggerated
Mr. Zarqawi's importance.

Answer 1

Zarqawi killed? Again??

Anyone who has been following the Zarqawi story will know that:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the phantom terrorist with super-human powers, was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq, and then he was killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, followed by a death during Operation Matador near the town of Qaim on the Syrian border, and finally he was killed, along with his mentor, Osama bin Laden, in the besieged city of Fallujah. Now we are told he was "killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad".

The reported death—and past deaths—are simply another dimension of a rather transparent psychological operations campaign run out of the Pentagon.

And then there was the story about al-Zarqawi eluding "capture by American troops, but [leaving] behind a treasure trove of information" on a laptop computer. It was reported al-Zarqawi jumped out of a truck and ran to a safe house in Ramadi, even though he only has one leg.

Answer 2

Doesn't matter if they have exaggerated it. He's dead, and so are several of his leading followers, so are several others at other strike points that occurred at the same time.

No, we can't win a war against terrorism anymore than we can "win" a war against drugs. Neither is subject to the same rules a country is.

However, the alternative is the slow growth like a cancer that we allowed by our silly passive behavior of the past as repeated strikes against us were ignored, or we spent our time scolding the terrorists while they laughed and recruited more for a bigger strike, then a bigger strike.

Better to make their lives so hard that people will know that they can always join the terrorist networks.

And die the next month.

But this new violence since Z's death was either already planned, in which case, what's the connection? Or they are responding to the attack, in which case, YES! We hit them, we hurt them, and they are striking back in pain! That's good.

Islam will not take over the world. We'll destroy any organization that seeks that goal.

So will all brave and honorable people.

We will preserve all parts of Islam that don't have the goal of destroying or converting all "infidels". There is too much of beauty and wisdom in Islam to lose. But this kind of terrorism cannot be tolerated, or given a pass. It must be confronted EVERY time it raises it's serpentine head.

Better than having self-appointed murderous butchers who videotape the beheadings of innocent civilians around.

Zarqawi needed killing, regardless of his "importance".

Answer 3

Facts are facts, we should have never went to Iraq we had no reason to. Zarqawi would not even be, if we were not there. He was a result of our presence. And to kill him will not stop the civil war, It does not matter what we do now they are going to have a civil war and the only ones that can stop it are the Iraqi's themselves. So in answer to your question, regardless of how Bush is thumping his chest this is like everything else he has done since he was appointed, no accomplishment.

Answer 4

I will only answer the last part of your rant by saying "Some Iraquis say the American military has exaggerated Mr. Zarqawi's importance", Most LIBERALS exaggerate their own importance!!!!!!!

Answer 5

The Liberals loved Zarqawi. Now that Bush got him he's no longer that "important" to them. Hypocrites!

Answer 6

Still waiting for the rest of the gang to be down.