Idea: al-Zarqawi's death should be great news to Iraq war opposition...

[stevietheman]

that is, 70% of the American people.

I posit that history books will record this event as the "last great false hope" of the war before the camel's back was broken and our troops are yanked outta there.

What we will behold soon is yet another unwelcome rerun. After (maybe) a brief interlude (mainly due to press concentration on Zarqawi's death rather than the insurgency), the violence will continue unabated and will most likely even worsen.

Then, most everyone will ask the predictable question: Why was the Bush Regime trumpeting Zarqawi as a major terrorist leader in Iraq when it turns out he has had little to do with most of the violence going on there? And the evidence will be clear--more and more of our soldiers will be coming home in body bags despite the capture of this "high figure".

It's the beginning of the end of this elective, illegal war of aggression against Iraq.

[bluestateguy]

1. Remember that the Tet Offensive was a military victory for the US

and was the beginning of the end for the US in Vietnam.

[npincus]

2. great point

B*sh and his Crime Family conflate the activities of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and sidestep the elephant in the room: the soaring amount of violence ia between Shia and Sunni and we are dead smack center in the middle of a civil war.

With Zarqawi dead, B*sh will not be able to assign the raging violence to Zarqawi's machinations.

I think you're dead-on right.

if Chimp has a slight uptick in popularity, it will be folowed by new lows as the final hold-outs still believeing we are "fighting terra" there have a long-awaited epiphany: it's Civil War, we don't belong.