This just cries out for the dead parrot sketch.
Posted on 06/08/2006 4:31:55 PM PDT by dennisw
DUBAI - Taunting President Bush during the videotaped killing of a sobbing, blindfolded U.S. hostage, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi boasted that the al-Qaida fighters he commanded “love death just like you love life.”
“Killing for the sake of God is their best wish,” the insurgent leader said, drawing a knife to hack off the head of his kneeling victim. “Getting to your soldiers and allies are their happiest moments, and cutting the heads of the criminal infidels is implementing the orders of our Lord.”
By the time he was killed Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike, al-Zarqawi was more powerful as a myth than as a man.
The killings he masterminded were carefully calibrated to have the maximum psychological effect and feed his legend.
His repertoire of violence was a guerrilla version of the “shock and awe” tactics of his American foes. Suicide bombings were planned with great precision but rarely aimed at targets of military value — their symbolic effect was more important.
The killing of hostages was also choreographed for maximum shock value and followed a ritual that became grimly familiar.
Mirror images Victims were dressed in orange clothes to mirror the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, and were filmed weeping and pleading for their lives, sometimes caged. Their decapitation — often at the hands of al-Zarqawi himself — was swiftly distributed over the Internet.
With his horror videos — including the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg — the Jordanian-born militant seemed to revel in taunting those seeking to catch or eradicate him. His bloodshed made the U.S.-led war on terrorism look impotent to some extent, an impression that the airstrike that killed him helped to dispel.
“It indicates that the intelligence services and police are now more capable of infiltrating the terror groups,”
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
He truely enjoyed killing and he used almost any pretense to do it. He was pure evil.
I didn't know that...I will keep him in my prayers. I know what it's like- my Screamin Eagle is home now- but he was deployed in some HOT areas in Iraq..learned all about living one day at a time.
God bless your son..
This just cries out for the dead parrot sketch.
I haven't heard from him today. I don't expect to. Not for a few days anyway. He knows I would know if there was bad news soon enough.
Odd having a son in combat in this day and age.
Thank you
If so, I'm surprised Olbermann didn't read it on the air so he could get credit for it from his Commmie buddies. He makes me puke.
Excellent post. You said it well: "These people imagine themselves smarter than every one else but at the end,
they are brought down by their own hubris."
You're right. Plucked down in California or Florida, he probably would have become 'just' another mass murderer psychopath.
Today: "Why did you kill Zarqawi? He was a marginal figure."
So now, the detestable anti-American pigs at MSNBC are tyring to convince us that Zarqawi was no big deal.
Before his death - BIG DEAL
After his death - NO BIG DEAL
These liberals are a disgrace. It's no wonder they lose.
I wonder if our troops realize how their accomplishments are being diminshed by the MSM and the Democrats. I wonder if they think, as I do, that these people do not deserve the protection the military provides them.
You nailed it - The MSM of this country are utterly pathetic - they are trash who only exist still in this world because of leaders like GWB and the very men and women in uniform who protect this great nation (which includes their sorry as$es).
Killing Zarqawi is a major strike against al Qeada in Iraq - You cannot replace Sr. effective and respected Leadership (with experience) like Zarqawi -
The Intel that has been quickly gathered regarding this strike has led and will lead to even further erosion of their forces in Iraq -
This is a major and lasting victory.
Washington - Taunting President Bush during a videotaped campaign speech, John Kerry boasted that the Democratic party he commanded “love taxes just like you love life.”
“Killing the unborn their is best wish,” the insurgent leader said, drawing his hanky to wipe spittle from his lip. “Getting to your money is implementing the orders of our doctrine.”
By the time he was defeated in Tuesday's election, Kerry was more powerful as a myth than as a man.
Bush's political strategists sometimes found it convenient to feed the Kerry myth in order to promote the notion that yes, this is the best the Democrats could do. Most experts believe his supporters make up only a fraction of the left, but the GOP portrayed Kerry as its most dangerous socialist foe. The $25 million spent in campaign commercials in Ohio and Florida matched the warchest of Senator has-bin-Clinton.
The pinheads at MSN whine 24/7 that we have never nabbed their boy bin Laden. When we do finally find his corpse, expect this same kind of reaction from these morons. MSN IS A BUNCH OF LOSERS.
And some people still accept the claim that Allah and the God of the Bible are one-in-the-same, just because Muslims say he is.
And I guess they still wait for Santa to come down the chimney on Christmas eve, too.
[When we do finally find his (Bin Laden) corpse...
Bin Laden is not dead yet.
Now I get your one liner!! (had to look up buzkashi)
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