Zarqawi Dead

Republicans party like it's 1999.

Democrats play it down.

Prison Planet:Pentagon Jettisons US Agent Provocateur Al-Zarqawi

I bring you this 2 year article from MSNBC:

With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.

The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

‘People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of pre-emption against terrorists.’

This strike was a political move to save Bush and his political allies. This is a mini Wag the Dog moment and this whole administration should be ashamed of itself for waiting 4 years to take out Zarqawi when they had the chance back in 2002.