Claims About Al-Zarqawi Suggest Confusion

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050527/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_zarqawi;_ylt=AhWdyqM9VqkolMbXmFb9mOWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2NzN0azRvBHNlYwN3bA--

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Who would replace the Jordanian-born militant as leader of the group responsible for multiple bombings, beheadings and assassinations in Iraq is becoming as hot a topic as whether the feared terrorist is actually alive or dead.

But Iraq's rampant insurgency, in which thousands have been killed in the past two years, would not be derailed even in the event of al-Zarqawi's absence, some experts warn.

"The real danger in Iraq is you have more than 50 attacks a day, with some made by al-Zarqawi and 80 percent made by others," said Diaa Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam at Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

"It's not really a problem of who will be the successor," Rashwan said. "He's not a real leader of a real organization, he's a symbol for a kind of network for small Islamic groups which share tactics and ideology."

[thebigidea]

1. "He's not a real leader of a real organization."

if only the "liberal media" would tell us that every time they flash the same 3 pictures of this clown...

[pinniped]

2. Option #3, he doesn't exist.

The pictures circulating the globe are of some poor farmer.

[emanymton]

3. With The shrub Junta, This Option Rings Oh So Believeably True

[MADem]

5. Perhaps a Robin Hood type character, that one legged guy

...who, like a lizard, can grow the leg back, leap from the back of moving trucks, and get shot in the lung, yet survive...

I don't claim to have a clue as to what the truth is, but the crap they have been shoveling at us defies credulity. It sounds like the horseshit we used to laugh at, back in the old days when Freedom wasn't just a marketing theme, when looking at what the old Soviet Union used to shovel at their poor serfs.

[jobycom]

4. Bush thinks he is fighting an army, but he's fighting himself

Every time we capture or kill one of the baddies, BushCo seems to think we are closer to a resolution. But someone will take their place. The only way we win is to kill everyone. What scares me is that may be acceptable to this bloodthirsty, conscienceless gang.

[saigon68]

6. They will KILL many, many more

Count on it.

[MADem]

7. That was the mindset in Vietnam

The old days of body counts, that is how progress was judged. The news would start out--rather like it does now--with the number of Cong killed. Of course, now they call them insurgents...but it is the same shit, all over again.

It astounds me that all of the chickenhawks in the administration do not SEE it. It bites me hard in the ass every time I hear how many 'insurgents' were killed, along with our kids, on the news--but hey, this administration doesn't 'do' body counts. Funny though, they sure pass that info on to the media, don't they?

I mean, after all, they were here, safe in America, during Vietnam, sitting in front of their TVs drinking their beer and whiskey, watching Rather and Cronkite, not over there, trying not to get killed by an invisible enemy and waiting for the mail to come in with letters from home.