6.28.2005

What Mr. Bush Should Have Done Rather than Dish Bullshit

From MSNBC (emphasis mine and the rest of the world's):

With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that 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.
And... [snapping fingers in remembrance]... it's been more than 1400 days since Mr. Bush said we'd get Osama dead or alive.

But then, of course, Mr. Bush couldn't use bin Laden and Zarqawi as his blame, his excuse for every vile thing he does if we actually caught them.