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New York Post ^ | 6/9/06 | Post Opinion

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Americans woke up to terrific news from Iraq yesterday: Following two weeks of painstaking work by U.S. Special Ops forces, two 500-pound bombs dropped from F-16 fighter jets ended Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's bloody reign of terror for good. Almost simultaneously, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally completed formation of his Cabinet, as Iraq's parliament approved his nominees for the interior and defense ministries as well as the state ministry for national security.

Iraq now has a complete and functioning democratically elected government.

Both of these developments are important milestones in the War on Terror. Maliki, we hope, will be proved right when he says the slaying of Zarqawi will "turn the tide of the struggle" against the terrorist insurgency.

But no one should be misled into believing that the terrorists have now been defeated. Even as President Bush was hailing yesterday's operation as "a significant victory in the War on Terror," he rightly warned that "we have tough days ahead of us in Iraq."

And those tough days, he cautioned, "will require the continuing patience of the American people."

That's a vital point - because even as congressional Democrats were hailing Zarqawi's death yesterday, some immediately began pressing Bush to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Refreshing to read a piece that doesn't go out of its way to slam Bush or the war effort

[cripplecreek]

The news just gets better. FOX was just saying that he lived long enough to see Americans standing over him.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

The news just gets better. FOX was just saying that he lived long enough to see Americans standing over him.



I am glad that this is the last thing he saw before he became satan's whore.

[edpc]

Americans woke up to terrific news from Iraq yesterday...

In other news....Zarqawi woke up to fire, brimstone, torment, plus much wailing and gnashing of teeth.....for eternity.

[TomGuy]

Best news this morning was the news bit that Zark was still alive when the US Military arrived on scene. Iraqi police had him on a stretcher.

At least, he got to see the faces of the US Military, so he knew they were coming for him, before he died. hahahahaha.

[GulfBreeze]

They should have duct tapped a porkchop to his head before they took the DEADMAN photos.

[SMARTY]

"...he lived long enough to see Americans standing over him."

That's almost asking for too much. I hope it is really true, although if he retained any consciousness after THAT blast, he could hardly have doubted how he came to be a hemorrhaging and mutilated heap of worthless humanity.

[theDentist]

I hope his very last look was seeing US and Iraqi soldiers placing pork in his hands and mouth.

[Just A Nobody]

But this is no time for complacency - or for a foolish rush to pull out of Iraq before the job is done.

Now if we could get Mu'tha and sKerry to shut up, we may win this war. But, that would not fit their agenda would it?

[Ganymede]

Ha ha ha... check out the front page:

http://www.nypost.com/img/front060906.gif

[Just A Nobody]

if he retained any consciousness after THAT blast

During the first announcements of his overdue demise, it was said that the Iraqi soldiers got to him before he was able to detonate his vest. He may not have lived long, but he knew...........and that makes me smile.

[TomGuy]

That's almost asking for too much. I hope it is really true, although if he retained any consciousness after THAT blast, he could hardly have doubted how he came to be a hemorrhaging and mutilated heap of worthless humanity.

Per the General in Iraq, Zark saw the US Military approaching and tried to roll off the stretcher and escape. So, it does sound as if he was cognizant enough to know his terror reign was over.

[babydoll22]

I heard they did the Ickey Shuffle as he was taken away.

[cake_crumb]

Murtha was one of the ones who crawled out from under his rock yesterday to demand a timetable for withdrawl. The CNN anchor asked him (gotta give her credit for this) if Zarqawi would be dead if US troops had withdrawn last May, which is what he'd been demanding since November. Naturally, he hedged. She persisted. Finally he said he didn't know.

THEN he repeated the Democrat mantra that Iraq was distracting us from the war on terror....completely ignoring the fact that Zarqawi was a terrorist and crony of Binny's. What part of "al Qaeda in Iraq" does the morn think does not apply to the war on terror??

I can't vote for his opponent 'cause I'm not in that district. I did, however, make a small donation to her campaign.

Murtha is a disgrace to the uniform and humanity, and a danger to the environment 'cause he takes our oxygen and blows out vast amounts of carbon dioxide every time he flaps his lips.

[veronica]

FOX was just saying that he lived long enough to see Americans standing over him.

Love it! Unfortunate however that in the pictures his head appears to still be attached to his body. What a great assignment it must have been to fly the plane that dropped the bomb.

[Wombat101]

Leave it to the NY Post to be that tasteless (and it's hardly funny, at that).

I'm happy that the man is dead, but the Post just made an even bigger martyr out of him. This will come back to haunt us in a "Prophet Muhammed Cartoon"-type way.

The Post has a responsibility to report on the story,and to advance commentary on it, not to engage in school-yard humor over very serious issues. In this regard, it is no better the NY Times.

Good job by our boys, though; A frosty mug and a loud "Oooh-RAH!" to everyone involved!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

LOMA!!!!

[NavyCanDo]

I'm still trying to find it in print, but the conservative news-talk radio I am listening to this morning are saying there are reports that when special forces reached the destroyed home, that Zarqawi was still alive - though dying.

If this story is accurate, any guesses what his last thoughts were?

[Wombat101]

"If this story is accurate, any guesses what his last thoughts were?"

He was probably wondering if he'd live long enough to be paraded naked through Aby Ghraib on a leash, with women's underwear on his head, and when the the photos would show up on the internet (/sarc).

[cake_crumb]

"Per the General in Iraq, Zark saw the US Military approaching and tried to roll off the stretcher and escape. So, it does sound as if he was cognizant enough to know his terror reign was over."

Doesn't sound to ME like Zarqawi "wished to die".