When confronting a freepturd who crows about Zarqawi's death, consider:

Bill Frist (via e-mail), on the death of al Zarqawi: "It is a severe blow for al-Qaeda and a victory in the Global War on Terror."

Republicans are taking the death of "one man" and doing victory laps around the racetrack. Plus, the Republicans constantly tout the "death/capture of the #2 guy in al Qaeda", every time they capture some lackey.

So, where do they stand on the need to take out the true symbol of terrorism and al-Qaeda? Let's see:

George W. Bush, 3/13/2002: "And the idea of focusing on one person is -- really indicates to me people don't understand the scope of the mission. Terror is bigger than one person."

and, from the same press conference, on Osama bin Laden: "So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him."

Apparently, Republicans don't feel that capturing the biggest name in international terrorism is such a big deal, while a guy who was a total nobody before 3/19/2003 is a devastaing blow . . .

If killing a terrorist is so fucking exciting they should all be there toting the hardware.

then Zarqawi will be forgotten, just like Bin Laden.

Running along the crawl every 10 minutes on Faux News

and Ronald Reagan . . . (as a friend always says) . . .

What did Bush trade in return? What were those 2500 American dead and 25,000 casualties for, anyway? Was it BushCo's plan from the beginning to have the U.S. military overthrow the Ba'ath Party and wear down the Sunni resistance enough so that Iran could walk in and take over southern Iraq, and the Kurds could secede in the North? Between them, and some multinational oil companies, they now control the better (oil-rich) parts of Iraq.

The division of Iraq into three chunks along ethnic lines was certainly the foreseeable result of the US occupation. Was this the intent all along - the outcome of the game the Bush family and the GOP spooks have been playing with Tehran since the mid-1980s? Or, was it merely incompetence -- like 9/11?

Too early to tell for sure whether things worked according to plan, but the evidence is clear that the real winner of the second U.S.-Iraq war is Iran.

Zarqawi was just a pawn or a rook, traded away. So were all those Americans.

This is just another mission accomplished bs talking point. Wait awhile and see that his death will have no effect on anything on the ground.