Al-Zarqawi: Dead

Why is it, even though the guy scissored off innocent people's heads, that I can't feel genuinely happy about his death? Is there anybody else who is unable to experience a feeling of mirth when even hideous wretches die?

I'm very grateful he's unable to continue his crap, though.

Freeduck has my back.



Yeah. Do something about your infernal ambiguity, McG!!

Yay, indeed.

Why is it, even though the guy scissored off innocent people's heads, that I can't feel genuinely happy about his death? Is there anybody else who is unable to experience a feeling of mirth when even hideous wretches die?

I'm very grateful he's unable to continue his crap, though.

Lash wrote:

Why is it, even though the guy scissored off innocent people's heads, that I can't feel genuinely happy about his death? Is there anybody else who is unable to experience a feeling of mirth when even hideous wretches die?

I'm very grateful he's unable to continue his crap, though.

I feel exactly that way but because of my politics, any sort of expression of that thought will come off as, well, you know. I just wish they could go in and arrest him. I know it's not that simple, I really do. It's not a perfect world. But bombs are just so indiscriminate.

Zarqawi's own people led coalition and Iraqi forces to his safehouse, tucked away on a deserted road outside the town of Baquoba, northeast of Baghdad. U.S. military spokesman William Caldwell said that most of the intelligence came from senior Zarqawi aides, and focused on the comings and goings of a man known as Sheik Abdel Rahman.

"He was the spiritual adviser to Zarqawi," Caldwell said. "He was brought to our attention by somebody from within the network of Zarqawi's. We had clear enough evidence about a month and a half ago that allowed us to start necking down to the point we were able to prosecute the action last night against that safe house."

Caldwell then played a black-and-white video showing aerial footage of the house surrounded by date palms, crosshairs at the center of the screen zeroing in on the two-story concrete building. The video shows two 500-pound bombs being dropped on the building.

Iraqi police arrived on the scene soon after, where they found Zarqawi, Abdel Rahman, and the unidentified bodies of four others.

"There's a woman in the group and a younger person -- a child," Caldwell said.

Caldwell then showed two large photographs of Zarqaw

I heard a report on the radio yesterday and an American military official said there was a child. I'll look for it.

Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, had said four people, including a woman and a child, were killed with al-Zarqawi and Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Iraqi, the terrorist's spiritual consultant.

Caldwell said it now appears there was no child among those killed. He cautioned that some facts were still being sorted out but said that three women and three men, including al-Zarqawi, were killed.

Some reports allege that a woman and child were killed in the bombing. Other reports state that three women were killed in the bombing. I consider that horrible. Are we become like the Israelis, who use a helicopter gunship to attack an entire apartment building because they have word that someone they want to "get" is in the building?