So What?

Good for our troops that they’ve killed the murdering animal in Iraq Abu Musab al Zarqawi. But before we see too many more dramatic, all-cap-letters headlines from CNN and elsewhere about it, let’s remember some of the people who al Zarqawi slaughtered, including CARE director in Iraq Margaret Hassan (pictured) and Nicholas Berg (and I will never forget the last image of Hassan that I saw with that pleading look on her face knowing the fate that awaited her).

(I can just picture Faux News right now, proclaiming that long-anticipated “Bush Bounce” from a 33 percent approval rating to a whopping 36 percent approval rating.)

And also, read this to know why their deaths, as well as countless others, could have been avoided if this war were being waged by the military and intelligence communities instead of a bunch of greed head, holier-than-thou chickenhawks who have murdered people in their own right as a result of their delusions. A modicum of planning in advance could have taken out al Zarqawi before the illegal war even started.

Finally, I think this diarist on The Daily Kos captured my opinion on this pretty well.