That and inequality. The whole "haves and have mores...I call you my base" baloney.
I didn't watch the video of the Nick Berg killing, but because of its content...and a few other "greatest hits"...I'm not shedding any tears over Zarqawi. A violent life can end with a violent death. C'est la vie. Whatever is waiting for all of us at the end of our lives was waiting for him, reward in hand. His turn now, our turn later. He's not a hero, he's not a martyr. He was a murderer, and he's gone to a murderer's reward.
Was his death "worth it"...look at how many American men and women in the Military were killed, wounded, maimed for life...physically and emotionally...while Bush merrily biked his way through his presidency. Look at the thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqis who became "collateral damage" in Bush's little "Crusade"...we had the world behind us after 9/11...even when we went into Afghanistan, under the pretense of hunting down Osama, many were still behind us...
...and we threw it all away so Bush could prove that he was better than his daddy. That he could finish the job that his daddy started.
And it's not all about Iraq.
The recent "marriage amendment" attempt to appease the Evangelicals who put him in office (along with Diebold, Florida and Ohio).
Wherever there is death, pain, suffering, inequality, people being kept from building a better life...people working two and three jobs and losing their homes and not being able to put their kids through college...
...there's THIS smirking face.
Belief in Karma keeps me sane...or as close to sane as I'm capable of getting in Bush-Cheney II. Zarqawi got his reward. We all have rewards waiting for us. All of us.
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