Remember how Bill Clinton conveniently bombed Kosovo on the eve of his impeachment proceedings? Pure coincidence, right? For some reason the bombing of Abu Zarqawi brings that previous incident to mind. Right as the massacre at Haditha is blowing up in the face of the U.S. military, we bag a big terrorist.
I think we can all agree that Zarqawi was a murderous scumbag who deserved to catch a 500 pound bomb. That’s not the issue, here. The issue is timing – Zarqawi gets picked off right when we desperately needed good news about Iraq. Pure coindicence, right?
Maybe not. Some military officals are now claiming we could have gotten Zarqawi long ago:
“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,� said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
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Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
So, if we’ve had this thug in our sights for four years now – four years in which he carried out more terrorist attacks – why did we wait until now to nail him? Could it be we let him continue his killing spree to prop up our justification for war?
Nah. It must be coincidence.