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You beat me to it lol! How do you like them already questioning the death of this pig? I guess they are upset because their hero is dead.

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RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is fascinating to see what is happening now out there in the Drive-By Media. I know that some of you who have seen this today are probably a little bit upset about it. Drive-By Media has just learned, they learned earlier today that Zarqawi was still alive after the two bombs pummeled his safe house, and that led to all kinds of probing questions of Major General William Caldwell, the spokesman for the US military in Iraq and Baghdad. We have a montage of some of those questions.

BARBARA STARR, CNN: You can confirm that US troops themselves saw that Zarqawi was alive, would you describe that as an attempt to escape at that point? Was he strong enough for anyone to have to resecure him? Did US troops try and render medical assistance?

BOB BURNS, AP: Could you give us the rationale for choosing to take Zarqawi out, kill him outright rather than try to capture him?

JIM MIKLASZEWSKI, NBC: Will there be an autopsy performed? Was Zarqawi able to speak? Did he say anything either to the Iraqi police or the American soldiers? How possibly could he have survived after two 500-pound bombs were dropped on that facility? Was he thrown clear? Is there any visibility on why he was able to survive those two bombs?

PAM HESS, UPI: What's going to happen to Zarqawi's body after the autopsy? Does he get returned to his family?

TONY CAPPACIO, BLOOMBERG: In the planning that went into this, was there any going-in assumption that you would try to take Zarqawi alive rather than kill him?

JEFF SCHOGOL, STARST AND STRIPES: How can you be sure that Zarqawi died as a result of the wounds without a formal autopsy? When you were cleaning him up, did you have to Photoshop his face? Did you have to digitally enhance the photos at all to clean him up, to show him to the world?

WILL DUNHAM, AL-REUTERS: How long, how many minutes was Zarqawi alive after the bombing and before he eventually expired, and had he been shot?

RUSH: Had he been shot? I was hoping that we would get in this news conference the question from the Drive-By Media, "Was he tortured?" But we didn't get that. We got close to it, but we didn't get that. Here is what [Maj. Gen William] Caldwell said in response to the question, "If you would explain to us the condition of Mr. Zarqawi when forces arrived at the scene."

CALDWELL: We were not aware yesterday that in fact Zarqawi was alive when US forces arrived on the site. The Iraqi police had arrived first. They had found him in the rubble. They had pit him on a gurney of some type of, stretcher kind of thing, and about that time the first US forces, part of the coalition effort arrived on the ground, and actually did identify him as Zarqawi, but he died shortly thereafter.