Bush is going to use this Zarqawi killing to jump start his poll numbers

that is a given, and by the looks of things the media (as usual) will be going hand in hand. First, it's good that he was gotten--it would have been better alive, but you take them the way you get 'em. Second, it was not George W. Bush who got him it was the military. Third, This doesn't make Iraq any less dangerous for our troops since revenge will be in the air. Fourth, We still need a precise time table to get out of Iraq--preferabley sooner than later.

May he fail miserably (as usual)

...even AWOL clowns are allowed to do this.

Is there something new here or are we just stating the obvious in bullet form?

Iraq think it was a timed event, 6th - The home-grown insurgency lives on, 7th - He is considered a martyr - which fuels more martyrdom

9th - Why, if they knew where he was, didn't they capture and try him????

The fix was in??. Such statements fly in the face of rational thinking. One doesn't have to buy into the Administration's garbage to recognize Zarqawi for what he was; a brutal mass murderer who had no problem killing Iraqi civilians to foment civil war. Try entertaining the possibility that the fact that the invasion and occupation of Iraq being a travesty doesn't absolve others engaged in perpetrating crimes against Iraqi civilians. There's plenty of evidence out there to support that Zaraqawi was just such a person.

On another thread, one poster explained that capturing someone under the circumstance extant in the Z situation is far more difficult and dangerous than simply killing him. Or perhaps the Iraqi government preferred not to assume the obvious and attendant risks that would come from holding him captive and putting him on trial. Really, it's not that difficult to think of reasons why they killed him rather than captured him.

But hey, if you wanna be an apologist for Zarqawi, go right ahead.

seen writings about him and the Al Quaida network. That is what I am referring to - that he was acting too independently from the global network.

And run away screaming to jump start his poll numbers.

Looking at the news we see that the killings in Iraq go on - the market continues to decline - Iran is on the horizon, the economy (even with the happy talk stats) is looking sour as it the mood of the country. The death of one man isn't going to change a thing no matter how much they hype it. They've hyped other deaths (Saddam's sons) and that didn't the situation on the ground.

I suspect most people at this point will shrug their shoulders and move on to news more relevant to their personal life.

By all accounts Al Zarqairi didn't work internationally. He was more a thorn in the side of the occupation in Iraq and no one here will feel more secure in any way.

The subtitle could be: "Promotions upcoming in Iraqi insurgency"

mess?

<snip> Zarqawi's killing gave the president a desperately needed success in Iraq as he tries to regain American confidence in his handling of the war.

http://reuters.excite.com//article/20060608/2006-06-08T140801Z_01_N08286146_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-IRAQ-ZARQAWI-BUSH-DC.html

but he'll never see 40% again.