I think take it out, along with a covert operation on Al Jazeera. By the time they got up and running, and by the time CNN got into Iraq (pretty tough since we control the road to Baghdad from Jordan), we could be a lot further along toward victory.
From Best of the Web Today, Wall St. Journal website:
In November the Seattle Times reported on an incident, which occurred in the 84h Engineering Company during the Gulf War in 1991:
In the first months of that year, the unit was in the Middle East preparing for the ground-attack phase of the Gulf War.John Allen Muhammad--the Washington area sniper. Lest we perpetuate stereotypes, we won't mention his religion.The story, according to [retired sergeant Kip] Berentson and at least two other former members of the 84th, was that [John Allen] Muhammad threw a thermite grenade into a tent housing 16 of his fellow soldiers. . . .
Berentson was in the tent. He says the grenade went off near him and near a staff sergeant with whom Muhammad had fought earlier that day. The Army's Criminal Investigation Division, Berentson says, concluded Muhammad (then named Williams) was the lead suspect.
Muhammad was led away in handcuffs and eventually transferred to another company pending charges. He had been court-martialed twice before for lesser incidents while serving in the Louisiana National Guard. But an indictment over the grenade incident never materialized, and Muhammad's Army file has no record of it.