10 Goofy Thoughts About Zarqawi’s Death

The ego defenses were in high gear yesterday, as cognitive dissonance set in among many on the left in the wake of Abu Musab Zarqawi’s death.

A virtual squirmfest of conspiracy-mongering, armchair quarterbacking and classic
moobat dimthink ensued. A sight to behold.


1. It will make things worse in Iraq! It takes a special kind of stupid
to make this
argument
. Are you surprised that ABC
makes the argument also?


2. Zarqawi was an ‘invented menace.’
Or a strawman.
Take your pick.


3. Killing Zarqawi doesn’t change anything. It
doesn’t change anything?
Well, we’ll never know will we, after
all the guy is now dead. That is like saying that killing
this guy
changed nothing during World War II. Right on cue, Jack Murtha
said "I
think we cannot win this."
Take a bow, Jack.


4. I question the timing! You knew this one was coming. AllahPundit:
"Send me any links you find of people questioning the timing, the stupider
the better. Ten points if they tie it to Haditha, a thousand points if they
tie it to the start of Yearly Kos." And sure enough, Democratic Rep. Pete
Stark
of California took the bait – "This is just to cover Bush’s [rear]
so he doesn’t have to answer for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military
and his own sagging poll numbers. Iraq is still a mess — get out."


5. Another guy will just take his place. " . . . most likely
Abu
Masri
. Just like gangs and the mob, when one goes, another rises up."
- TalkLeft


6. Okay, we can bring the troops home now! "Our troops have done
their job in Iraq. " – John
Kerry


7. Zarqawi was just small potatoes. "As terrorists go, he was what
sportswriters might call a scrub." – Scott
Thill

"There is no evidence of operational links between his Salafi Jihadis
in Iraq and the real al-Qaeda; it was just a sort of branding that suited everyone,
including the US. Official US spokesmen have all along over-estimated his importance.
Leaders are significant and not always easily replaced. But Zarqawi has in my
view has been less important than local Iraqi leaders and groups. I don’t expect
the guerrilla war to subside any time soon." – Juan
Cole

"Zarqawi’s importance to the tactical situation in Iraq has always been
overstated, and I doubt he has any significance at all to the strategic situation."
- Matthew
Yglesias


8. Bush blew earlier chances to kill Zarqawi. "U.S. forces passed
on taking him out three times." – Russell
Shaw
, citing this article
by MSNBC, which claims: "long before the war the Bush administration had
several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi
himself — but never pulled the trigger. In June 2002, U.S. officials say
intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a
weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide."

What a minute. You mean to tell me that al-Qaeda was in Iraq before the invasion, and they were cooking up WMDs? The devil you say!


9. He’s not really dead. Or, he was already dead for some time, but
spent a Weekend At Bernie’s: "I can’t help but wonder if al-Zarqawi wasn’t
killed some time ago and they just decided to announce it today and tell us
he was killed in yesterday’s raid." – TalkLeft
(. . . again, which deserves some kind of award for hitting most of the above points all in one post).


10. Killing never solves anything. Michael
Berg
takes the extreme view over the death of his son Nick’s murderer.


There are still more, such as "He deserved a trial, hot meals and cable
t.v.," "his martydom will only create even more terrorists",
"how many civilians died trying to kill this guy?"

Play along at home if you like!

Thanks to Hotline and Dr. Sanity for the links.

Crossposted from WILLisms.com

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  • http://Array Jesse

    re 2, 7, and 9 Al Qaeda confirmed his death and that he wasn’t “small potatoes”.

    re 10 Convince the blowbots and their programmers that “killing doesn’t solve anything”, good luck. These guys are natural born killers, and like a skunk with rabis simply need to be exterminated. You don’t waste much time taking a rabid skunk to the vet for a “cure” you just kill it.

    Trying to “reason” with these freaks is like trying to reason with Jeffery Dahmer or Charles Manson. Who in their right mind thinks they are in their right mind??

    Abu Musab al Zarqawi; condemed by his own words

    May 18, 2005 – “The killing of infidels by any method including martyrdom (suicide) operations has been sanctified by many scholars even if it means killing innocent Muslims…The shedding of Muslim blood…is allowed in order to avoid the greater evil of disrupting jihad.”

    The greater evil of disrupting jihad??

    The trouble with Islam is that these evil, violent, radicals are the ones in control!!

    Any Muslim that disagrees with them is an apostate and desreves to die.

    No wonder the “moderate” Muslim doesn’t often cross them.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    I’ll make this real easy. I’m no longer responding to people who are simply here to be rude to me.

    I’ll make this real easy: you keep on posting spam and playing the victim card while parlaying in the same behavior that you constantly bitch about and your comments will be treated as the spam they are.

  • robert108

    diane: Better run. I am never rude to you, but I regularly refute you, usually with your own words. I don’t care if you respond to me or not, since I have no need for your attention. I will continue to refute your BS, though. If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

  • Jesse
  • Jesse

    Diane,

    Here is a Kofi Annan quote;

    “State sovereignty, in its most basic sense, is being redefined not least by the forces of globalisation and international co-operation. States are now widely understood to be instruments at the service of their peoples, and not vice versa. At the same time individual sovereignty by which I mean the fundamental freedom of each individual, enshrined in the charter of the UN and subsequent international treaties has been enhanced by a renewed and spreading consciousness of individual rights. When we read the charter today, we are more than ever conscious that its aim is to protect individual human beings, not to protect those who abuse them.”

    We hear from the psychomyopic and psychoglaucomic left the war was immoral becasue “the coalition violated Iraq’s state sovereignty”.

    Those who paralyze themselves with the notion a dictatorship has any moral claim to state sovereignty apparently want to stick with the traditional and conservative way sovereignty has been defined, one that allows a band of thieves to make a whole country their personal killing field, and in the process claim “state sovereignty”. They blinder themselves to the fact these totalitarian dictatorships utterly violate the concept of individual sovereignty and instead offer up the idea of individual sovereignty on the twisted altar of immoral state sovereignty.

    I think true “progressives” would do well to consider Kofi’s further comments;

    “Any such evolution in our understanding of state sovereignty and individual sovereignty will, in some quarters, be met with distrust, scepticism, even hostility. But it is an evolution that we should welcome. Why? Because, despite its limitations and imperfections, it is testimony to a humanity that cares more – not less – for the suffering in its midst; and a humanity that will do more – and not less – to end it.”

    Would you comment on the validity of idea of state sovereignty in the case of a dictatorship?

    DO you believe a dictatorship hold a valid moral claim on state sovereignty?

    Doesn’t a dictatorship’s inherent violation of individual sovereignty render any claim of state sovereignty a moral farce?

  • Carrick

    Ken, that’s a great wrap up of Democratic/liberal/antiwar sentiment.

    Now … I dare you, try and average these to get a consensus opinion. LOL.

    Here’ my try:

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    diane clowns, It seems to me the one who hates America is George W. Bush. He’s done more to take it down than any president I can think of.

    This is coming from the person who doesn’t know the definitions of “illegal”, “anti-Constitutional”, and “immoral”.

    It’s just the BushWhacked who still hang in there.

    Thank goodness he’s only got about 1.5 years left to destroy more of what’s left of the country.

    This is considered a “good argument” by diane.

    What idiots these people are are.

    This post is excellent and really shows them for the brainless thugs they are.

    diane plays right into the subject of this topic. She thinks we’re “brainless thugs” for believing Zarqawi should have been killed.

    Never let them in power again. They hate America.

    Who is she talking about here? I sense projection.

    We had lots of choice about the pre-emptive strike on Iraq. Dimwit decided to go for it against counselling by people who knew it was a really stupid idea.

    Not a very persuasive argument here. Who’s the “Dimwit”? diane is.

    You folks are the America haters. What you love is having control over people lives, minds and morals. But you don’t. You think you do.

    Seems just like the rhetoric heard just before the 2004 elections. Who won that one again?

  • Jesse

    Zarqawi Death Scam: Self-Centered Americans

    Heh, heh.

    Like I’ve said, it seems the roots of these types of delusions are clinical psychomyopia and psychoglaucoma severely complicated by the psychosis of self-righteousness.

    It’s a catch 22 situation, since you are right, there is no hope of a cure.

  • diane

    I’ll make this real easy. I’m no longer responding to people who are simply here to be rude to me. That includes not even reading the crap they post. The list includes:

    likwidshoe
    Robert108
    HotelBoy
    LoadTheMule
    BatOne
    docdave

    On the edge are:
    Carrick
    Justin B

    I’ll continue to post to the topics and ignore anything from the first group of vicious posters.

    Save it. I won’t read it or respond.

  • Zsa Zsa

    Jesse…Diane has a vivid imagination. I don’t think that she wears blinders. I think she wants to see and believe the worst about GW Bush and our troops being in Iraq??? I am guessing…

  • diane

    Or at least they seem to hate Bush more than they love America.

    Ken McCracken on June 10, 2006 at 2:41 PM

    It seems to me the one who hates America is George W. Bush. He’s done more to take it down than any president I can think of.

    Today at Home Depot we stood behind an old Air Force retiree who was a captain for TWA most of his career after the military.

    He cannot stand George Bush after voting for him in 2000 and 2004. He’s part of the base Georgie Boy is losing every day.

    It’s just the BushWhacked who still hang in there.

    Thank goodness he’s only got about 1.5 years left to destroy more of what’s left of the country.

  • http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene Redlin

    Ken, and the post below that says some liberal dimwits are Questioning the timing of the strike. Yea, like we had a choice once we had the info.

    What idiots these people are are.

    This post is excellent and really shows them for the brainless thugs they are.

    Never let them in power again. They hate America.

  • Carrick

    Jesse, just so as you know, Diane subscribes to the 9/11 alternative conspiracy theories. I say “alternative conspiracy theories” because of course the official version was a conspiracy theory this time.

    And the site is du.org in case Diane wants to go there. At least there are like minded people.

  • diane

    Yea, like we had a choice once we had the info.

    What idiots these people are are.

    This post is excellent and really shows them for the brainless thugs they are.

    Never let them in power again. They hate America.

    We had lots of choice about the pre-emptive strike on Iraq. Dimwit decided to go for it against counselling by people who knew it was a really stupid idea.

    You folks are the America haters. What you love is having control over people lives, minds and morals. But you don’t. You think you do.

    It’s only temporary. There’s a Nebuchadnezzar out there waiting for the signal from a higher power.

  • Jesse

    Too tight blinders can cut off blood flow to the brain you know…..

  • robert108

    1. It will make things worse in Iraq. For the terrorists.

  • diane

    Woops…my computer is not working well these days.

    This was pasted (the other was from another thread, another insulting post to me) by GENE REDLIN (apparently you didn’t read his post):

    Yea, like we had a choice once we had the info.

    What idiots these people are are.

    This post is excellent and really shows them for the brainless thugs they are.

    Never let them in power again. They hate America.

  • Jesse

    Can we just have a conversation on the side of the main board??

  • robert108

    You know, we “murdered” Zarqawi “in cold blood”. It was not a hot combat situation. And that’s a good thing!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Jesse asked, DO you believe a dictatorship hold a valid moral claim on state sovereignty?

    Doesn’t a dictatorship’s inherent violation of individual sovereignty render any claim of state sovereignty a moral farce?

    Yeah. Apparently her type does. I’ve asked the same exact question over and over again with no answer. She’ll then restate the claim of “Iraqi sovereignty” under Saddam. She’ll then have the gall to claim that we’re the “immoral” ones. Apparently the concept of “sovereignty resides with the people. Under Saddam, Iraqis had no sovereignty” is too heavy of a topic for her to understand.

  • Bat One

    Likwidshoe,

    I honestly think it all comes down to the convenience of expediency. Heaven knows these people are simply not capable of rational thought. Maybe its a form of genetic predisposition, the intellectual equivalent of permanent political PMS.

    The radical left informs us that the sovereignty of Iraq under Saddam was inviolate, but the sovereignty of the State of Israel does not exist. (No word yet on the sovereignty of Serbia, I guess.)

    The UN is ever so admirable and authoritative when it is fawning over palestinian terrorists who cannot mannage to govern, even marginally, the Gaza Strip, an area of roughly 139 square miles, less than one tenth the size of Rhode Island, but the fact that the very same UN granted Israel its sovereignty is completely ignored. (We will leave aside the whole question of the UN’s incomparable corruption, incompetence, ineffectiveness, and predatory sexual perversions).

    Christians, especially the hideous and dreaded “fundamentalist” variety (whatever that is) are far, far more dangerous than Islamist Jihadis, who run around blowing up themselves and anyone else, women and children included, within 50 yeards, or hacking off the heads of live “infidels” all with no word of condemnation from those on the left. While those who are proud of our country and would defend it, or have, are regarded as knuckle-dragging neanderthals or worse.

    The war in Iraq was morally wrong because Iraq supposedly posed no threat to the US, but US military action in the Balkans, initiated for even less justification, and now some ten years beyond the stated deadline, are conveniently ignored by the same leftist hypocrites (pardon the redundancy).

    Phooey!

    Except for the occasional amusement of trifling with them to stave off the chill of boredom, I see no reason to bother with them at all.

  • Carrick

    To make that clear “living in an idealistic rather than realistic world” is what allows people to prescribe to crazy theories like the alternative 9/11 conspiracies.

    It’s called “poor reality testing”.

  • LoadTheMule

    Rude to you? Get a gripe, diane–you must be ‘channeling’ again. I simply called you on your, “You’ll accept FICA because I said so,” schtick. You didn’t own up then and you won’t own up now. How utterly pathetic.

    Regards…

  • Zsa Zsa

    Deep throat would be a nice underground name. OR, is that already taken?

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Jesse, liberals don’t really believe that state sovereignty stuff.

    They sure didn’t when Bill Clinton led an illegal, pre-emptive war against a nation that didn’t threaten us in Serbia.

    They only pretend to believe in it now that they think they can attack Bush with it.

    Their tune will change when it is convenient to do so. They are dishonest to the core.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Btw – I just love how you say that I am here to be rude to you while you sit there and call me name after name.

    You’re a real piece of work lady.

  • Jesse

    Good grief Diane, are you for real??

  • Carrick

    Jesse: Imagination, is the word, the right word, if she is for real.I would prefer living in an idealistic rather than realistic world.

  • Jesse

    Imagination, is the word, the right word, if she is for real.

  • robert108

    Bat: I have been puzzled for a long time why the lefties in this country are so infatuated with Islamic fundamentalists. On one hand, they violate a lot of the “precepts” that lefties claim to hold dear, like women’s rights and individual rights. The Islamic fundamentalists subjugate women, and don’t believe in individual rights at all. There is no choice, and they absolutely would never permit either “gay marriage” or “gay rights”. There would never be any dissent or demonstrations permitted, which are some of the main activities of lefties. The uniting factor may be their unholy fear of individual independence. Lefties want everyone to have the choice to follow their ideology; anything else is heresy, and that is where they join with the Islamic fundamentalists. Christian fundamentalists, who may be intolerant and bossy, still believe in free will, which is anathema to both lefties and Islamic fundamentalists. That may be the bottom line.

  • Jesse

    Diane, what’s your Democratic Underground name??

  • Jesse

    Diane do you always wear your blinders this tight??

  • Carrick

    Zsa Zsa, I agree with you.

  • diane

    I think this whole thing is a tempest in a teacup. diane made an error when she spoke. She used an acronym that is commonly misused. No big deal, happens all the time. The fact that she cannot/will not own up to it is what’s telling.

    diane, if I’m in error–and that’s always possible–you have only to illustrate it by specifically responding to 1-3 above.

    ******

    Um….these were pasted from Gene’s post and then italics didn’t take.

    Is your face red or what?

    You’re a nasty person, you know that?

    I’m through with you.

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Or at least they seem to hate Bush more than they love America.

  • Zsa Zsa

    Why she believes that? I don’t know…She isn’t all bad. Occasionally she is right.

  • Jesse

    Democratic Underground is where all the wacko theories like United 93 was shot down, the 9-11 planes were flown by remote control etc. are believed as fact. It’s a study of how bizzare people’s ideas can get and still have the whole herd believe them.

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