Bush will now Crow & Smirk & call Zarqawi's death a Great Victory,

[Philosoraptor]

...In "The Long War".

Call it whatever you want Georgey boy, we all know this don't mean shit, and the war was lost before it began.

[Kutjara]

1. Faux is already spinning it...

...by saying that 'we bagged Public Enemy Number One.' Wow, it's like we just shot John Dillinger again! Just call Shrub by his new name: 'Elliot W. Ness.'

[Philosoraptor]

2. I thought P.E. #1 was Osama?

Just trying to keep up.

[Kutjara]

4. Nah, Osama doesn't matter any more.

Shrub 'doesn't even think about him' these days. He's of no concern at all. Just a passing annoyance. Nothing to see here, move along.

[rfranklin]

3. What happened to Osama bin Laden?

Was this Zarqawi guy one of the 9/11hijackers? I'm so confused!

[Philosoraptor]

6. For 3 years they've been saying Zarqawi was Osama's #2 man.

Now he's NUMERO UNO. Now that he's supposedly dead.

[Kutjara]

7. Please try to keep up.

Osama bin Laden was the guy who shot J. R. Ewing.

Zarqawi is 'Public Enemy Number One' and orchestrated the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

I think that's right.

[unschooler]

11. Ha! Touche!

[Selatius]

12. Zarqawi is the one who shoots thunderbolts from his ass

Osama is the one who can slay 100 men with the single swipe of his blade.

[The Icon Painter]

42. Are You Sure?

I thought Osama was the one who could leg-press 2000 pounds.

[Selatius]

5. I predict yet another "Iraq's turned the corner"-type statement or...

"they're in their last throes"-type statement again.

And around the lunatic asylum circle we go over and over again.

[Philosoraptor]

9. I give it 2 days in the news cycle. This is just a scandal smokescreen.

I'm done being fooled.

[DemonFighterLives]

27. Tony Blair was already out there

Giddy as all get out. z man dead and Iraqi Prime Minister fills in the missing pieces of his cabinet.
As soon as the fat lady does her thing, it's in the bag.
:silly:

[Eugene]

8. Tony Blair has already started.

(The Guardian)

Blair: Zarqawi death is 'severe blow to al-Qaida'

Staff and agencies
Thursday June 8, 2006

Tony Blair has hailed the killing of the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq
as "a very important moment for Iraq".

In a short statement released this morning Mr Blair said the US air raid
that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would deal a severe blow to al-Qaida.

"A blow for al-Qaida in Iraq is a blow for al-Qaida everywhere," he said.

<snip>

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1792868,00.html

I suppose Shrubya will chime in too when he wakes up.

[Philosoraptor]

13. Cue Tony Blair

Oh brother. Karl is writing the speech, W will rehearse and mangle it.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

10. Dead again?!?

This guy makes a cat envious.

[marmar]

14. Exactly. The insurgency doesn't need Zargawi or any other leader....

The presence of the U.S. military is all the fuel it needs.

[Philosoraptor]

15. This is really a non-story.

Like in 1984, just another victory headline.

[Disturbed]

16. He had aleady beenn replaced a few weks ago.

Has replaced as Field Commander. Al Q was not pleased with him and that video of him looking foolish got him demoted.

[bklyncowgirl]

17. Yup. It'll be like the Saddam capture all over again. A giant smirkfest.

It will probably have the same effect as capturing Saddam had on the insurgency also--which is essentially none.

Domestically it will boost the president's poll numbers a bit--maybe alot--if there are any braincells still functioning in Bush's head he may use this event to declare victory and get out in time for the elections but that is doubtful.

[Philosoraptor]

18. You're right, "The Long War" will go well past this November.

Any sane person would try to pull out the troops and win the November election, but not these jerks.

[Clark2008]

19. OK, Shrub's numbers are in the toilet and NOW they're

reporting that Zarqawi was killed?

Something smells and it ain't my dirty doggie.

[Philosoraptor]

20. They wouldn't be THAT crass and evil would they?

Anyone with a brain knows this thing stinks. We'll see a lot of strange headlines in this election year.

[bdamomma]

40. I am very suspicious about this

Uncle Karl is working very hard spewing/spinning it up for W.


but wait.......Osama is still out there.

[Caro]

21. Let him crow. Let him declare victory.

And let us insist that the victory means bringing our troops home. Now.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Philosoraptor]

22. In the old days, Victory meant the troops could come home.

Now it means nothing in the long war.

[Swamp Rat]

23. Yes, a great victory for 'terrorist cells' everywhere.

Zarqawi's worthless ass has now been transformed into a great weapon in this asymmetrical war: a martyr.

If Bushler gets on TV today to blather about it, it will not only show how much they do not understand their enemy, it will also give the 'terrorists' a HUGH1! boost in morale.

[Philosoraptor]

25. The Munchkins will not thank us.

[Swamp Rat]

26. Do you mean the shivered and dismembered little children of Iraq?

Yeah, they're a bit too dead to complain these days.

[malaise]

28. He'll be in in 10 minutes n/t

[Swamp Rat]

29. The 'Decider?'

He is about to hand a victory to the 'terrists' while stoking the Rovian propganda machine.

[bridgit]

24. we shouldn't be seen "crowing" about Zarqawi's sudden absense...

either imo if indeed he is absent (DNA in 24hrs), there is nothing to be gained and everything to be lost being seen pining for the loss of cold blood killers be they Zarqawi, or the perpetrators of Haditha, or the cold blooded takers of innocent blood anywhere

[Philosoraptor]

30. Bush: "Justice was delivered to Zarqawi"

[bridgit]

32. it was, with the able assist of the Jordanians in particular...

[bdamomma]

41. when will justice be served to you Mr. Bush

[Philosoraptor]

31. "But the difficult Mission Continues"

[Skidmore]

33. But, but, but, I thought the mission was accomplished...

[Philosoraptor]

34. "We have tough days ahead of us in Iraq, which will require our patience"

[DemonFighterLives]

35. Bush basically confirmed the many faces of Zarquawi

He said we have killed the terrorists'ss's.
Everything will be fine now.

[mwb970]

36. Nothing will change.

Two weeks from now, the insurgency will be stronger. The killings will continue, the chaos will deepen. One man - even Zarqawi - cannot embody the entire Iraq debacle, such that his killing means that "victory" (whatever that is) is at long last ours.

I'm not sure what would have to be wrong with you to believe the self-serving nonsense we will be treated to on the MSM in the next few days. I think I'll go fishin'.

[w8liftinglady]

37. He's already doing it.I saw the smirk as he spoke in the rose graden.

little piece of filth.

[long_green]

38. Let him, and let them

by November, when nothing has changed, except that there will be 3,000 dead Americans in Iraq more people will realize what this administration has really done in the "War on Terra."

[BurtWorm]

39. If it gives him an excuse to "cut and run," great.

But it won't.