Posted on 06/15/2006 11:25:36 AM PDT by RWR8189
George Bush made his trip to Baghdad, he told the new prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, "to look you in the eye." Yet his surprise visit established more than a first-hand connection. It signposted the dramatic events of the past week, which bode well both for Iraq's future and for the broader war on terrorism. As he stood in the hall of one of Saddam's former palaces--quite literally in the eye of the storm--Mr. Bush implored the Iraqis to "seize the moment." There are now emerging indications that they are doing just that.
Thanks to the efforts of the men and women of America's military, the prayers of millions of Iraqis were answered with the death of al Qaeda's "prince" in Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was responsible for the gruesome murder of thousands of innocent Iraqis. He supported al Qaeda's goal of killing Americans and himself beheaded a number of our citizens on video.
Experience with terrorist groups over the past 30 years suggests that his death will help the war on terrorism in three ways. First, taking a terrorist leader off the board has symbolic importance. Terrorist groups are cult-like and depend on a charismatic leader for inspiration. The ramifications of Zarqawi's death go beyond Iraq because of the stakes in the broader war which al Qaeda has declared on the West. With bin Laden in hiding, Zarqawi has been al Qaeda's most important operative. Now he is gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
It's been a bad week for terrorists, and for the Democrats.
What's bad for the terrorists is bad for the Demagogues.
What's good for the terrorists is good for the Demagogues.
What's bad for America is good for the Demagogues.
What's good for America is bad for the Demagogues.
Corpus Diem (sic)............
We'd take away the "it was the wrong war at the wrong time" if the administration would stand by it's previous assertions that Al Qaeda had a decade's long relationship with Iraq.
It's relatively easy to prove and the media seems to have forgotten that they (including Newsweek and the NYT) wrote dozens of articles in the 90's about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
This is what freepers can do, on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1649228/posts?page=3
shut up Bremer. you were not really a big help at all. Just go away.
Bremer had no choice but to disband the Iraqi military. The 60% Shiite population would never had stood for just a Saddam replacement. It was the long road for sure, but the only one possible.
JMHO
Xacly. What? Hes back on the Victory bus now? Get off the stage..BOOOOOO!!!...BOOO you Bremmer...BOOOOOOOOOOO!
The fact that Bremer is speaking out is evidence that he sees the handwriting on the wall. Otherwise, better for him just to lay low.
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