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taxidriver Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:26 PM
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is Zarqawi the new bin laden?
i'm anticipating some form of october surprise regarding bin laden. picture the scenario:

"early today, american troops, with the help of Pakistani forces, found and killed Osama Bin Laden and 2-3 key liutenants. This is proof that Bush is a good president. end fox news transmission".

so, Bush gets his poll boost and maybe wins another 4 years. Buy what to do with the war on terrorism? its poster child has been vanquished, but there is still much work to be done.

enter zarqawi. the new Bin Laden. I predict that he will conveniently take up home in syria or Iran, whichever Bush wishes to conquer next. any thoughts?

by the way, here's a reuters article talking about "fighters loyal to zarqawi". No mention of Bin laden. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5462730
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:32 PM
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1. Could be
That still doesn't justify war in Iraq. The Saddam-Zarqawi connection is just another neocon lie.
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taxidriver Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:36 PM
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2. right, that's my point. my "wag the dog" sense is tingling.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:38 PM
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3. They tried to kill him this morning...
The reports are that 4 of his people were killed but not yet known if he was one of them...But 22 people were killed in the airstrikes - including women and children...but not as bad as the beheading...
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taxidriver Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:40 PM
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4. yeah, i read that.
i included a reuters story about it in my post.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:44 PM
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5. If he is..then why isn't he on the FBI's top ten list?
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:46 PM
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6. And why wasn't he on the deck of cards ?
Cheney and Bush say that they were hiding out in Iraq...Did they really think the deuce of spades and the deuce of clubs were more dangerous than these Al Qaeda that were hiding out in Iraq???
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:47 PM
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7. So is Osama also dead? I thought they had killed Zarqawi a long
time ago. Then he "reappears" with a regrown leg....
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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:50 PM
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8. seems to me the
administration is TRYING to build up zarqawi because they think they CAN catch him and NOT bin laden...


everything that's happened in the last two months, they say zarqawi, zarqawi, zarqawi... remember nic berg? that was supposedly zarqawi, too, but i've spoken with several experts who say there's no way it was.


so yes to your post, but only because the government is trying to make it that way.
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Jabbery Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:53 PM
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9. NO. He's the next Bush
The guy's only following the exmaple of his supreme leader - Bush.
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 01:01 PM
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10. Nah, Bush couldn't pronunce the name with enough ease ...
to keep harping it as he has Osama, Osama,Osama, Sadaam, Sadaam, Sadaam. It would end up as Sarqui, screwsi, or some such. Probably give him a nickname, like Floppsy, or Moppsy, or perhaps even Cottontail.
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 01:06 PM
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11. First Saddam, then Zarqawi. The bin Laden substitute de jour.
I have no doubt that you are right that the Bushies will misdirect American attention again. If Zarqawi becomes catchable, they will turn him into bin Laden before capturing him. The capacity of these Bushies to play with America's heads is boundless.
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Chango Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 01:11 PM
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12. Does Zarqawi even exist?
As far as I can tell, he's just a bogey man employed by the Bushies in the absence of a tangible "enemy" in Irfaq. The last time Zarqawi was seen was in Northern Iraq before the war. He is said to have bugged out over the border to Iran, and since then there has been no substantiated proof that he is in Iraq or involved with the activities he is alleged to be responsible for.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 01:16 PM
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13. Interesting question ??
They said the photo of the beheading of Nick Berg showed Zarqawi but they said previously that he had a leg amputated...None of the assassins seemed to have a limp...

But the bottom line is , it is better to have an enemy with a name, even if he is already dead, than to have no name at all. Because that would be an admission that you do not have any idea who is killing our people? That would ba an admission the Bush regime are not ready to make. They would prefer lies and distortions over the truth...
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