Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind - (How the nabobs spun Zarq in past)

MSNBC ^ | March 2, 2004 | By Jim Miklaszewski

[VoodooEconomics]

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.

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Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

[VoodooEconomics]

At first Bush foolishly did nothing to get this guy ... and now when we get him ... well it doesn't really matter - blah blah blah

[Grampa Dave]

Here is another prime example of our pro Islamofascist Mediots trying to re do history and minimize the death of their buddy, Z Pig.

[elhombrelibre]

Bush needs to perform on the MSM's schedule. Otherwise, he's incompetent. When he succeeds, he's untimely. It's the MSM's new Catch-22, and it's working. No news is good news if it helps Bush.

[MHGinTN]

Poor Mikla, as Rush pointed out in his first hour, these leftists fools have just contradicted their own axiomatic belief that there were no al Qaeda in Iraq prior to our going in, and have ignored their own mantra of never bomb if you can negotiate even unilaterally ... it's the leftist 'head up clinton's butt' syndrome, except these fools like Mikla cannot triangulate like clinton because they retain a microscopic grain of honesty that still niggles at them occasionally.

[rhombus]

Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

Or they were exercising diplomacy as isisted upon by the Democrats and the MSM.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Speaking of "pro Islamofascist Mediots "

There is a book,:

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

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And a review:

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Communism is dead. Long live Islam!, September 30, 2004

Reviewer:

Kevin Beckman (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

It sounds absurd: why would Leftists make common cause with a religion that is diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for? David Horowitz explains that it is really quite logical given the Left's first principle: America is evil and anything or anyone opposed to America is good.

Part I of the book is a brief history of 9/11 through the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and the Left's behavior during this time. Horowitz includes the reaction of Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine: "The flag stands for vengeance, and jingoism, and war." Anthropology Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University said he hoped for "a million Mogadishus." His colleagues objected, not to the despicable sentiment, but because of the bad publicity it brought their "teach-in." Our tax dollars at work!

Part II is the heart of the book: a history of the American and international Left. Horowitz calls them Neo-Communists or Neocoms. The Neocoms of old believed in the Soviet Union the way religious people believe in God. Those who spied for the USSR didn't see themselves as traitors to their country, but rather loyalists to humanity and an ideal of America that's never existed. When the Soviet Union fell, a few of them stopped for some introspection but most pressed on as if nothing happened. Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm put it nicely: "Without the Revolution, my life and my work are meaningless."

Now that they no longer have to defend an indefensible regime, modern Neocoms are simply nihilists. They know what they oppose but they have no plans for the aftermath of the revolution which they still believe will happen. They don't know what they want, but they know what they hate: the United States, capitalism personified.

So why are they allying with radical Islam? Horowitz says that the Neocoms still believe in Marx's dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Once private property is abolished, the need for religion will vanish, and Islamic radicals will stop being Islamic and radical. The only thing standing in the way is the United States.

Sound insane? It is. They are. I highly recommend this book. Horowitz makes the insanity understandable.

[observer5]

No, if Bush had bombed the camp, they would have al screamed --- IMPERIALISTIC AMERICAN.....

[norwaypinesavage]

"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."

Wait, wait. I thought there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the war. You can't have it both ways, Time.

[ladyinred]

OH PIG FEATHERS!!!! Tell us about Clinton's brave moves against terrorists okay????