Why is GW dogged for not getting OBL yet killing Zarkawi is a non-event?

Question

the liberals have been carrying on about how GW is not doing enough to get Osama, yet when US forces kill Zarkawi they all play it down like its no big deal.

Please explain

Obviously his death is a media event. what i mean is that the liberals are bending over backwards trying to minimze the importantce of this event. When all we heard previously is how OBL should be caught. If thats the case, then getting Zarkawi is pretty much just as important. Liberals just want to regain power, if we have to loose to war for that to happen, then so be it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5564

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G: Heres your link. Both OBL and Zarkawi are part of the same organization. That organization is called "Al-Quada". can you say that? I know its a big word.

Answer 1

If it was bin laden they still wouldn't be happy! They evidently haven't had the B----s to look at the videos of the animal beheading Americans!

Answer 2

How is the lead story on every news broadcast and every news paper in America on THE LIBERAL MEDIA a non event??? Oh, if you were looking for a boost in the polls, ain't gonna happen. A moron is a moron, it's just too bad it took 6 plus years for most Americans to figure that out.

You asked the question though that brings up an interesting point. Perhaps you should explain just why the mastermind of 9-11 is NOT in custody? Don't say "Because he's hiding", because your idol, W, has said that already. But he's also said, he's not a priority anymore. I wonder what 3000 families think about that, but the "LIBERAL" media doesn't interview them too much.

Oh, and by the way, didn't seem like W was all that inspired about the capture of the #2 guy. Just FYI, #2 is not #1, got it?

Another thing,
Isn't "Art" a LIBERAL thing? Someone is a closet liberal. You know what they say about being in the closet.

Answer 3

As a moderate, who voted for Bush the answer is simple. Killing Zarqawi is the perfect microcosm of the whole war in Iraq. Heroic soldiers execute with pefection a plan to track down and eliminate Zarqawi. Despite this perfect execution, it will not ammount to much change in Iraq. 40 people were killed and 120 people wounded yesterday despite the actions against Zaraqawi.

The reason is this will ammount to no change is that the plan is wrong. The Bush Administration and millitary brass have put our soldiers into a situation where they cannot succeed. They can't figure out who is helping and who is the enemy. This situation could have easily been predicted at the outset of the war with the ethnic make-up of the area and the lack of infrastructure outside of the iron fist of Sadam. For reasons that are unclear, no one prepared for this kind of war after Sadam was toppled. I predict we will eventually have Iran 2 for Iraq.

It is wonderful that they got Zarqawi, unfortunately it will hardly put dent in the violence. It might not even chip the paint.

Answer 4

Please, don't gobble up all of the right wing hatred towards liberals. I've been listening to Rush on and off this morning as well as Al Franken. Rush claims that the left could care less about this event and Franken decries the whole episode as ludicrous (the episode being the right trying to convince the world that the left is terrorist-loving). This is a proud moment for the American military. They did a great deed by ridding us of this terrorist. Don't generalize.

Answer 5

The sad part of what you point out is the reality of politics. The left, particularly the far left, can not give GW an ounce of credit or success in anything. They have successfully beat and beat upon any negative items they can. Look how they blew up the prison scandal...certainly some American soldiers went to far and we're punished...but the crime was in politicising it to make GW and his party look bad and give comfort (and ammunition) to our enemies.

Isn't it ironic that much of what the DNC produces in terms of talking points match that of al queda today?

Answer 6

Because capturing the head of the terrorist organizations is the LEAST he could be doing, not a "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" event. Bush even has the sense to qualify it as not having much effect on terrorist actions.

Why do you Bush supporters keep your heads in the sand on how things are going in Iraq and only come out to cheer these little steps like they were the end of the war?

Answer 7

that's an same infantrymen and commanders over there. same intel ops. The longer infantrymen are there extra probable they receives him. i'm an self reliant, yet that is why even as the Dem's had to carry them domicile the Rep pushed puzzling now to not. This had not some thing to do with politics. This grow to be performed with assistance from neither president. merely the exertions and sacrifices of our courageous adult adult males and women.

Answer 8

Because he was just one of the "dead enders" who have been in their last throes for over a year - just ask the real president, Cheney. And it took someone to rat on him. BUT, if it is a big deal, I haven't heard Bush say we're pulling out NOW.

Answer 9

... well, me personally... I want to find and kill the people responsible for 9-11... call me crazy... I haven't seen anything ever linking him in any way to 9-11... has anybody got anything linking him?.. please cite something...

Zarqawi is responsible mainly for attacking troops in Iraq, from what I understand... which is bad, yes... but Zarqawi seems to be more a product of us going into Iraq than a reason why we are there...

Answer 10

Because people in the media and on the left just hate him