Now that Zarqawi's gone, how will Bushco explain the insurgency?

[smoogatz]

Who will be promoted to boogey-man status to take his place? They can't ever admit that the insurgency is primarily a home-grown reaction to the occupation, obviously. So who's driving the damn thing now? I mean, first it was Saddam and Osama. Then it was just Saddam. Then we caught Saddam, so it couldn't be him anymore. Then it was Syria for a little while, but they mended their ways. I'm thinking Iran's probably next. Or Venezuala. Or possibly France...

[leftofthedial]

1. new #2

last throes

turned corner

[still_one]

2. They can't. Any gain will be very short-lived

[Kurovski]

3. 90%, homegrown.

[Marr]

4. "We have made significant progress in fighting the Iraqi terrorists-

and the recent killing of Zarqawi has left them crippled.. and lea-der-less (anunciating the new word there). But there is still real fighting to do... blah blah..."

In other words, they'll just spin and lie. You know- the usual.

[earthside]

5. The End of the Line

The unwinnable war in Iraq has been lost.

Today's news is actually a political defeat for Bush.

There isn't an individual boogyman left in Iraq now to personify the resistence, the insurgency, the "terrorists".

* has just lost another bogus rationale for his genocide.

Indeed, Zarqawi was a controversial, splinter faction in the insurgency and his removal will probably make it easier for average Iraqis to indentify with and condone the resistence to American occupation.

The "moran-in-chief" might be smirking today, but his war is lost, victory is a mirage ... and, sadly, many more U.S. troops and innocent Iraqis will die before this war criminal and his gang of thugs are forced out of office.

[Orsino]

6. As Clinton's fault.

Or Saddam's, anyway.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Oh, they'll resurrect him again.

The guy's got more lives than the Son of God.

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. He's begun planning for a September 11th Homecoming Parade n/t

[Canuckistanian]

9. Very true

We're now at a dangerous time. They're now officially "boogey-manless" and they need someone to take that role again.

Saddam's captured, al-Zarqawi's dead, OBL is in the witness protection program and even Qaddafi is a respected fellow capitalist.

Interesting to see who's the next enemy to end all enemies.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Chavez.

Didn't you know he's been funding the Iranian nuclear program? The IED parts being smuggled from Iran into Iraq are manufactured in Venezuela?

[Javaman]

11. They all ready have a name they are posting...

Nu-gui tu-blaim....

[Junkdrawer]

12. Civil War. "We're there to bring peace and stability long enough...

for the feuding sides to recognize that the ballot box is the best place to resolve their differences."

Damn. I could write Bush's lines for him. Excuse me while I blow that part of my brain out.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. It's a half ass version of getting the head on the platter.

We're talking medieval blood lust justice here, packaged up for the angry white rw males.