[Chicken_Little]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pigleg', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chicken_Little', '
')Sorry to be pedantic, but you can't 'amputate' a head. Amputation implies the non-fatal removal of a body part, hence a head can only be severed, not amputated.

[Lighthouse]

Again amputation sounds much nicer than cut off the head.

Like friendly fire incident sounds much nicer than Shot to death by an comrade ...

BTW I want to amputate this annoying monkeys head, who had hacked into PO.com

[chukar]

My, it seems we've been hacked. What a bother.

Our desperation is becoming more evident by the day. The U.S. continues to make poor judgments and worsen the situation. Every mistake we make just exacerbates the oil crisis and brings peak closer. I was hoping to have more years to prepare.

[Mesuge]

Check out the work by UK journalist Robert Fisk I think he is with the Indenpendent. Basically, his direct observation is as follows, large chunk of the "sectarian violence" is manned by the state security forces not unlike in the recent civil war in Algeria. Those death squads are fueling the violence. Who benefits? If your plan is to have permanet mil. base in the region and the justification for its presence lacks public support, go figure..

[Andrew_S]

But is Iraq still safer than Washington DC?

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mesuge', ' ')If your plan is to have permanet mil. base in the region and the justification for its presence lacks public support, go figure..

[fireplaceguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pigleg', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chicken_Little', '
')Sorry to be pedantic, but you can't 'amputate' a head. Amputation implies the non-fatal removal of a body part, hence a head can only be severed, not amputated.

[whereagles]

Militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has announced.

"Today we have eliminated Zarqawi," Mr Maliki said, sparking sustained applause. The US said he was killed in an air raid near Baquba.

The Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was considered the figurehead of the Sunni insurgency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5058304.stm

[untothislast]

Great news. Hostilities will cease immediately, and all Islamic fundamentalists will embrace Quakerism.

[DigitalCubano]

Great news! I hope this is a big enough blow to the insurgency so that the business of stabilizing Iraq gets back on track and the grim situation in the Middle East gets taken down a couple of notches.

[Serendipity]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DigitalCubano', 'G')reat news! I hope this is a big enough blow to the insurgency so that the business of stabilizing Iraq gets back on track and the grim situation in the Middle East gets taken down a couple of notches.

[BrazilianPO]

Good! He was a SOB; killing Iraqi civilians at random. However, I do not thing this will change much the situation. Americans and civilians will continue to die daily, unfortunately.

[thedoge]

" Mr. President, I strongly advise you to take him out right now. We
cannot afford to wait until october"

[mrniceguy]

I don't think there will be any significant change in the situation, Iraq is getting worse by the day. They'll be plenty of people waiting to step into his shoes.

[untothislast]

Here's my one minute Hollywood pitch: Bin Laden & Al Zarqawi died ages ago. The US keeps their bodies in the coldstore. Whenever Bush's poll ratings start flatlining back home, they slide one of the stiffs out of the drawer - planting it in a house they've just razed in an airstrike. The 'War On Terror' is shown to be paying off. Poll ratings rise. Now get me George Clooney's agent . . .

[Heineken]

Can you say "MAJOR REPRISAL?"

A new leader takes his place---they're constantly grooming them. More recruits are found---the supply of angry young Arabs is bottomless.

Bush reaps a few days' worth of great propaganda.

The prices of oil and other commodities continue to take it on the chin.

But soon enough the dismantling of our civilization gets back on track.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DigitalCubano', 'G')reat news! I hope this is a big enough blow to the insurgency so that the business of stabilizing Iraq gets back on track and the grim situation in the Middle East gets taken down a couple of notches.

[Alnitaka]

Some support for untothislast's assertions. I looked at the picture of the dead Zarqawi on CNN's web site. It looked like he was in perfect shape except that he seemed asleep. One would expect the two 500-lb explosions would have blown everyone inside into little pieces.

[rsch20]

I was just thinking the same thing before reading this, just saw the picture on cnn. and i'm thinking 'they did an air strike, yet have a nice corpse to pose?'

and whats with the video of the bomb site with kids running around on it, does it seem normal to be seeing footage of the attacked area right away? isn't that stuff normally not aired for national security etc etc.

smells fishy to me.

[mekrob]

Although the picutre is only of his head. Maybe that's all that is left.