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Various responses to the de-aliving of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:
* George W. Bush: “Last night in Iraq, United States military forces killed the terrorist al Zarqawi. At 6:15 p.m. Baghdad time, special operation forces, acting on tips and intelligence from Iraqis, confirmed Zarqawi’s location, and delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq.”
* Gypsee: “Please Mr. Bush, do not speak on my behalf. I do not believe assassination=justice.”
* Flaming Fairy: “Scummy fascist bastard Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead. However, at least one person over at the BBC’s ‘Have Your Say’ is less than cheerful.”
* Zoloft Pony: “Two 500lb bombs right on his safe house. NOT SO SAFE NOW, IS IT, BITCH?!”
* Christopher Dickey: “His demise may have side effects that are very difficult to predict.”
* Glenn Reynolds (who supplies an abundance of other links): “I hope his end wasn’t entirely painless, though it seems likely that it was swift.”
* 5handgang: “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed!!! You may remember him from such films as Head Job and Gunfight at the Al-Queada Corral.”
* Dan: “Anyone that doesn’t appreciate the fact that it’s a good day for the world that this bastard is dead, can kiss my lily white ass.”
* Emperor Nexus: “HAH! He got Pwnd in an Air Strike!”
* Alpha Patriot: “Oil prices dropped on the news of his death, and that’s always good.”
* Preemptive Karma: “Okay, so Zarqawi’s been 86’ed. When do our troops come home?”
* Al: “This is a wonderful day for Americans, our military, and the good people of Iraq who are trying to achieve a normal life for themselves.”
* Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded by Zarqawi: “I have no sense of relief, just sadness that another human being had to die ... This will just bring a new cycle of revenge killings.”
* Ed: “Nick Berg’s father, described as a Green Party pacifist, does not think this is that great of a victory because it is just more killing. This wimp is not even worthy of living in the land of Oz. Even the munchkins celebrated when the first wicked witch had a house dropped on her.”
* John Hawkins: “This Is Your Brain. Now, Look At Michael Berg. That Is Your Brain On Liberalism.”
* Lazy Town: “What you may not know is that today is not only the day al-Zarqawi was killed but also the day that is recognized as the day Muhammad died (in the year 632). Quizzically ironic, no?”
* James: “We got Zarqawi ... and the liberals don’t like it!”
* Castlereagh: “He’s dead - so what?”
* Paul McGeough: “If Al-Zarqawi is dead, it is a remarkable breakthrough for Washington and the struggling Baghdad regime. But ...”
* Bojudd6: “The press treats al Zarqawi like an animal with the headline ‘Hunted Down’ ... he is no animal and we should have some sense of dignity.”
(Thanks to Chuck Simmins for that opening clip; earlier Zark mock here)
UPDATE. Further views:
* Scott Adams: “I’m also happy for the pilot or drone operator that dropped the bomb on him. That guy has a story to tell. ‘You know that al-Zarqawi terrorist guy? I killed him on Scott Adams’ birthday.’”
* Antony Loewenstein: “George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard must be so proud … The glee with which this news has been received in the West is remarkable.”
* John Quiggin: “Zarqawi is dead. Hooray! … Abu Musab al-Zarqawi richly deserved his fate.”
* Bushie: “We can now sit back in our lounge rooms and wait for the reprisals.”
* Jason Soon: “Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
* Aussie Bob: “There were children killed in the raid. A complete multi-story block of flats was demolished. Kids toys and clothing were everywhere.”
* John Robb: “If we put Zarqawi within a historical context, he was able to do what Che hoped to do with a foco insurgency. In essence, he proved that within a modern context (open source warfare and systems disruption), it is possible to seed the collapse of a state.”
How will this Berg imbecile distinguish the “new cycle of revenge killings” from what would have happened anyway? Okay, so now AQ in Iraq is going to kill as many people as they possibly can. If Zarqawi had lived, they would have killed as many people as they possibly could instead. Big difference there.
That’s all they do. They kill people. They were killing as fast as they could already. They’ll be doing it tomorrow, except that now their leadership is disrupted and that’ll probably diminish their effectiveness. There’s a depth of stupidity among clowns like Berg that’s really hard to credit.
And it is very, very likely to diminish their effectiveness. We’ve seen this with Hamas/PIJ/et al: Israel kills their leaders. Terror groupies in the West loudly brag about how that’ll only cause more attacks (from people who, like Zarqawi, were already killing everybody they possibly could). What actually happens? Fewer attacks. These dirtballs are not supernatural or superhuman. Obviously there will be new leaders, but any transfer of power causes confusion. An unexpected transfer of power, in a chaotic situation where the last guy and his staff are a red mist and the whole organization is living in safe houses and communications are difficult, is disorienting. They’re also losing expertise. They also look weak and vulnerable, to themselves and to everybody else. These things are a blow to morale.
The left are desperately trying to sell the rest of us their own pathological fantasies of personal impotence and helplessness. It’s bullshit. Not even lefties are as weak and vulnerable as they believe themselves to be, much less adults.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 06 08 at 02:16 PM • permalinkP. Froward
How will this Berg imbecile distinguish the “new cycle of revenge killings” from what would have happened anyway?
He can’t. It is just another way for the left to vilify GWB, Blair, Howard and the rest….primarily Bush.
What the Left will never admit to, is all of the murders, rapes, tortures, beheadings, tongue slicings, tossing off buildings, starvations, gassings and other assorted ways of killing that went on while Saddam was THE, Zarqawi.
Why can’t we learn from the Nick Berg’s and the Cidy Sheehans of the world? The great peace loving leaders of Hamas have. Hear the wisdom of Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar who states, along with Addamo, the Daily Kos that: ” ‘[His] death was only a minor loss to the anti-US resistance movement in Iraq,’ the Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday. Zahar, who has been meeting Pakistani officials in the capital of Islamabad, said the Palestinians are ‘blessing every effort to eliminate the existence of [the USA] occupation.We aredead [emphasis added] sure that assassination of any of the people (like al-Zarqawi) who are resisting will not ... end the resistance,’ Zahar said at a press conference.’ Is it not comforting that the Kos, the media whore, the deranged Berg are all on the same page as the foreign minister of Hamas. Coincidence?
paco
this would be an excellent time-share opportunity for you
Exactly. The ‘pitch’ started this way many years ago…First there was land, then a building was out on the land, called a house, then we put a bigger house on the land, called a Condominium and then we divided the Condominium in periods of time, called weeks, that’s right Mr. and Mrs Buyer, the SAME weeks you find on your handy-dandy calendar at home…lol.
Well the apple never falls very far from the tree. The Mr. Berg didn’t impart enough wisdom to fill shot glass to his son. Nick had been given numerous warning and hints to get the hell out of Iraq because of the dangers and we all know how that turned out.
Perhaps Mr. Berg’s denial of happiness is futher evidence of his own guilt.I was just listening to Michael Medved interviewing Michael Berg. Asked what he would have done with Zarqawi, Berg said that, after capturing him alive, he would have Zarqawi work for the rest of his life in a hospital that treats children who have lost limbs through violence and hope that he would “learn something” from that experience. Asked what he would have done with OBL after 9-11, Berg said that he would have contacted bin Laden and asked him what he wanted. Suppose what he wanted was for the US to have no further contact with any Muslim nation anywhere at any time in the future, asked Medved. I would give it to him, replied Berg, because sovereignty is his right. There are no evil people according to Berg, only evil acts and GWB is just as culpable in the evil acts department as Zarqawi and equally responsible for Nick’s death.
I only hope the fact that Berg is running for Congress (Green Party—natch—candidate in Maryland) means that he no longer is teaching high school.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 08 at 03:58 PM • permalinkSuppose what he wanted was for the US to have no further contact with any Muslim nation anywhere at any time in the future, asked Medved. I would give it to him, replied Berg, because sovereignty is his right.
“Sovereignty is his right”. He thinks bin Laden has rightful sovereignty over the entire Islamic world. So… that election was when, exactly?
The garbage these people believe isn’t even internally consistent.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 06 08 at 04:10 PM • permalinkTo quote from ‘Blazing Saddles’
“Candygram for Mr al-Zarqawi…”
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 06 08 at 04:14 PM • permalink“Please Mr. Bush, do not speak on my behalf. I do not believe assassination=justice.”
Maybe she should have gone to Iraq and set up a metting with Zarqawi so she cound give him a big hug….
Posted by Bashir Gemayel on 2006 06 08 at 04:22 PM • permalinkI was just listening to Michael Medved interviewing Michael Berg.
Yeah, I was listening to that, too. The guy is off the charts even by moonbat standards. Berg would have had the U.S. surrender completely to OBL’s demands after 9/11.
I was just going through the comments at the Daily Kos and they’re doing a good job of containing their enthusiasm about Zarqawi’s demise. As usual, they see everything through the prism of their intense hatred of Bush so it’s a mixture of conspiracy theories, downplaying the significance of it, and fretting about the political consequences for Democrats.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 06 08 at 04:29 PM • permalinkBarbara Boxer shot her mouth off, too, but I can only type so fast.
I got the best parts, though, since she thoughtfully kept repeating them.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 06 08 at 04:50 PM • permalink* Bojudd6: “The press treats al Zarqawi like an animal with the headline ‘Hunted Down’ ... he is no animal and we should have some sense of dignity.”
Quite so. And when we mount his head in Rumsfeld’s trophy room, we promise we won’t deck it out in an orange wig and a big red nose. I am making no promises about the Darth Vader helmet, though.
Berg and Sin Sheehan (the latter has not even provided a headstone for her son’s resting place because the tombstone might indicate he was a hero). Do we need more proof that there are mothers and fathers who hate their children to such a degree that they will demean and disgrace their own selves to subhuman levels in an effort to destroy the humanity of their offspring? Such child abuse is not recognized in the law; but such hatred eats at the body and the soul of those who carry it. We watch the disintegration of those two before our eyes and the degeneration of those who support them.
NBC’s Mike Boettcher starts right in with the quagmire line, the insurgent’s angry response being a bombing http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/imuscut.boettcher.ram and is brought up short by Imus
``How do we know that’s a response, Mike?’’ (6:15am New York time)Those who live by the sword die by the
swordsatellite guided weapon systems.Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 06 08 at 07:00 PM • permalinkMichael Berg must bear responsibility for the indoctrination of his own son and his resulting blindness to the dangers he faced.
Any normal father would be racked with guilt over sacrificing his own son to the altar of demopathic liberalism.
Nic must have suffered enourmously at the hands of such a father even before he went to iraq.Lazy Town: “What you may not know is that today is not only the day al-Zarqawi was killed but also the day that is recognized as the day Muhammad died (in the year 632). Quizzically ironic, no?”
No.
Why? Becasue apparently people in Lazy Town are too lazy to get their facts right. Muhammad was said to have died June 8. Al-Zarqawi was taken out on June 7. I’ll do the math for Lazy Town - June 7th is the day before June 8th.
Ding dong the dick-head’s dead!
The dick-head’s dead and his face is redDing dong the dick-head’s dead!
And now we bottle his severed head!!I say we plunk his noggin in a bottle of formaldehyde and send it on a world tour freak show and allow viewings at $0.05 per person.
The Bergs of this world are every bit as much our enemy as are the islamofascists and are deserving of exactly the same response/treatment.If not for the Bergs of this world, the murderous scumbags would know to keep their distance and mind their manners.
It’s the cowards and intellectual inbreds of this world that encourage and promote violent extremists.
Howzat
This is the only way to deal with Islamic terrorist scum. No drawn out court cases, just kill the cancer at every opportunity.
Bingo....in the back of the room. No prisons would exist for there would be no prisoners. No political correctness. No Marquess of Queensberry rules. No rules according to Hoyle, No Geneva Convention. Nothing labeled “militants”,nor “insurgents”...Nothing regarding these Islamapsychopaths, nothing that is, but death…a horrible death.
#35. That was a classic. Well worth the listen.
To say Mike Boettcher was brought up short is almost an understatement. The way he bumbled and stumbled his way through the rest of what he had to say was too funny.
It makes you wonder about the quality of peope who go into urinalism, I mean journalism. (Okay, cheap joke.) For people who make their living with words, especially presumably accurate words, so many journalists seem to be just incompetent or careless to the point of incompetence. I think Mike Boettcher was so busy trying to wax poetic (in his own journalistic way) that he wasn’t particularly concerned about letting the truth intrude. When Imus asked him how he knew what he was saying was true (such an innocent little question), he literally had no answer. He didn’t know. He was making it up. It seems that “telling a story”, in the common media parlance, has become more important than actually reporting the facts. Is that what we want from journalists?
Thanks for the list, but strangely I did not see the term “grim milestone” anywhere.
What could be responsible for this oversight?Great call. It is an amazing oversight on someone’s part. Shouldn’t we be reading something like this?
“In a grim milestone for the brave Minutemen of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in an American air strike last night. This chilling development comes on the heels of numerous losses over the last few months for the insurgent forces and follows the ongoing failure to disrupt the elections or the political process that followed it.”
ABC talkback caller #1: “It’s sanctioned murder!”
Anti-Iraq ‘invasion’ ABC talkback caller #2: “If they knew where he was, why didn’t they go in and get him? Did he have to die?”
ABC talkback caller #3, changing subject: “David Hicks must be brought home today! He is convicted of no crime! And America must stop imposing their will on us! How can John Howard lie straight in bed at night? Why does my medication no longer work?”
Verbatim. Almost.
Can we send that video to Amehdinajad?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 08:31 PM • permalinkBut where’s my compassionate head tilts? I want my compassionate head-tilts, dammit!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 08:32 PM • permalinkSo how is Zarqawi like a Catholic priest?
They’re both a lot more likeable with a bit less head…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 08:47 PM • permalinkZarkman thought yesterday was a bad day. Imagine his disappointment last night as he deflowered 72 raisins.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 06 08 at 08:51 PM • permalinkHow come this news CONVENIENTLY jumped in when we were hearing all the WAR CRIMES of the USMC?? Just like that Osama’s tape gets released every once in a while WHEN Dubya and his men and women having some big trouble. It’s JUST ANOTHER SMOKE SCREEN, folks. All along, I thought Zarqawi was A-nother WMD WITH LEGS, so that the US could say, “Here comes Zarqawi in Fallujah, so we’ll bomb there,” then “Oh no, he was not there, but now we are certain that he is hiding in this village, so we drop a few dozens of cluster bombs there” and so forth. Remember, EVEN ROBERT FISK doubted that Zarqawi existed in the manner of what the US has told us.
Also, IF he was the ‘leader’ of so-called ‘terrorist organization’ as they say, and that ‘Al Qaida’ is a military like organization, that means they lost just another officer. Therefore, somebody else will immediately replace him, therefore his death DOESN’T MEAN MUCH AT ALL!!!!!!
Why this fuss?
That’s because they want you to forget about their own crimes of killing innocent Iraqis, and more… when Zarqawi was created by the US to begin with.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO405B.htmlPosted by: Chihaya at June 9, 2006 10:35 AM
Blablblablblahblablah…
#54
The MSM might use what you said as “credible grounds” for a story on the torture and abuse of Iraqi Freedom Fighters at the hands of the US military.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 06 08 at 11:13 PM • permalinkYESSS.
Very satisfactory, but we should spread some information to emphasise his humiliation - perhaps he died in New Balance sneakers with direction-finding microchips made out of pork bones, covertly inserted while he was treated for machine gun barrel burns on the blistered palms of his hands. Hey, weren’t they blistered BEFORE the burn…???
It was pretty bad listening to the A(LP)BC’s “current affair” AM and World at Noon radio shows today. On AM they almost seemed to be lionising him, while at the same time putting the worse possible spin on it (no big change, upsurge in violence, hardly means anything etc)
On the World at Noon they seemed to be trying to see just how many times they could fit the word ‘assassination’ in.
Aussie Bob: “There were children killed in the raid. A complete multi-story block of flats was demolished. Kids toys and clothing were everywhere.”
Well, Aussie Boob, keep in mind that the bastard’s tactics included hiding himself among civilians. If innocents died, he was the prime mover.
Anti-Iraq ‘invasion’ ABC talkback caller #2: “If they knew where he was, why didn’t they go in and get him? Did he have to die?” No! He didn’t have to die! If only the military had used Paco’s Live Terrorist Traps, he’d be sitting in a consultation room discussing his case with Ramsey Clark at this very moment.
#12, Dave S. - Our old pal Addamo is at it already…
”...the death is timely, seeing as it will serve as a precious distration fron the Haditha massacre.”
Posted by HisHineness on 2006 06 09 at 12:17 AM • permalinkWon’t it be funny if he had banked all of the AQ’s funds in a French bank under his own personal name? Oh crap? He didn’t leave a will? Well, looks like the bank can keep the money forever then!!!
Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 06 09 at 12:17 AM • permalinkAbu Al-Zaquari (may his tribe increase)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
The pointy end of a GBU-12, KERBOOMPosted by Whale Spinor on 2006 06 09 at 01:03 AM • permalinkPatricia — We’re gonna unbottle Osama in late October ‘06. Saving Amehdinajad for ‘08.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 09 at 01:33 AM • permalink#60 I heard the some thing, bastards. They say assassination as if it was some form of illegal action carried out against a legally elected head of state. As if the US “assassinated” a foreign head of state. They also mention some child and woman died, well how many indiscriminate car bombs has al-Zarqawi detonated on the Iraqi people.
Some more quite satisfying news
Well known pioneer Australian raving antisemite and nazi (before it became fashionable and started to call itself “leftist”) Eric Butler is worm food at last.
A life lived in a mindless rage of hate. Appropriately punished by making it long.
How can they prove they actually got the right guy?
DNA test?
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 06 09 at 04:36 AM • permalinkAussie Bob: “There were children killed in the raid. A complete multi-story block of flats was demolished. Kids toys and clothing were everywhere.”
I’m sure Aussie Bob has left many a post on the Internet decrying the killing of children by Zarqawi. Why, the day he heard about the Jordanian wedding massacre, I’ll bet he was beside himself with outrage. Right?
Right?
Can you imagine this mentality in World War II? They would vociferously oppose any air bombings of Germany and Japanese cities out of concern that residences are located near tank factories.
It’s this type of squeamishness that makes the left unelectable in times of crisis.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 09 at 05:31 AM • permalink#12 Dave S.
Done!Besides, the US had surveillance on him all the time. They followed him from Afghanistan to Iraq. He relied on US technology to communicate. He was well funded and armed, and this was not by the Iraqi’s. Sorry for being cynical but I wonder whether this has anything to do with the upcoming US elections. They just happened to discover Sadam Hussein prior to the earlier election.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 09 at 06:02 AM • permalink#86. Yup.
Did you read the whole thread? Some remarkable stuff there.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 09 at 07:56 AM • permalinkIf a child died in the bombing of Zarqawi, that is regrettable. But I’d like to remind everyone of the children who were killed by a car bomb when they gathered around US soldiers handing out candy and toys. The most famous photo to come out of Iraq so far is of a GI holding the bloody body of a toddler, killed by one of Zark’s disciples. How many more children would have died if he had lived?
Regarding the quote from #85:
Sorry for being cynical but I wonder whether this has anything to do with the upcoming US elections. They just happened to discover Sadam Hussein prior to the earlier election.
Sure, they discovered him prior to the US election. How prior? Almost a full year prior. Saddam was captured in December 2003 and the election was held in November 2004. That’s an eleven month difference. Since there are elections in the US every two years, just about any development can be said to have taken place before an election if you want to use that sort of standard.
So, to answer the speaker’s question, yes, I think you are being cynical. And what’s more, I don’t really think you’re sorry about it.
Have you ever stepped in dog mess while barefooted, then discovered a shard of broken glass with your foot while trying to scrape the dog mess off, only later to find out the dog mess that entered the wound on your foot has caused your foot to go gangrenous and you had to have your foot amputated? That’s what it feels like trying to reason with that bojudd6 guy at his website.
“Aussie Bob” is lying. The “block of flats” story is pure fantasy.
There’s video of the house being hit. It wasn’t a “block” of anything. It was an isolated single house. Looked like it was in a grove of trees or some such.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 06 09 at 12:01 PM • permalink
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Great links.
Listen for the subtle racism in the doom and gloom statements that “another one” will just spring up. As if they were… dandelions. Today, several more ruthless, media savvy men and women with years of arms training and operations experience, modern people who carefully crafted a largely successful PR strategy, are now DEAD. They are not interchangeable.
It is a great day for the world.