This Is A Great Day!

[ChiefUSMC]

GET SOME

I woke up to the alarm clock and that news was on nothing better then listening to My Brothers taking care of business.
Once A Marine Always A Marine

GySgt James A Rowley
Career Recruiter/NCOIC RSS WKN
Wichita Kansas

[jennifer]

Woooooooooooooord to everything!!! Who's next now????

[Geeze Man]

Hope he's burning in the hottest part of hell. He deserves no better.

Now I hope no one, but I'm probably wrong about this, starts talking about how he was a person who died for what he believed in, was a martyr who died for the cause, etc, etc, etc. But if it does happen, it will come from the MSM. The talk shows this weekend will be interesting to watch!!! Wonder if Murtha will describe it as a massacare, or Kerry says its another example of the terror our troops are perpetuating against the Iraqi people?

The man was a sociopathic thug and deserves every pain he endured in his death.

GREAT JOB BY EVERYONE!!!

[booksbenji]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=30675

[jinelson]

Sure did books but I posted at 0116 and you posted at 0128 we must have been posting simultaniously. I beat you by 12 minutes.

[FistFu68]

HELL HE'S EVEN UGLY DEAD

[booksbenji]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/ar...08032509990001

[Phantom Blooper]

I'm glad the ssumbag is dead..more to go! I do have a question though. I just heard on the news that the Iraq government will honor the 25 million $ bounty on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head and life.

The question being, if they the Iraqui government are able to post this type of coin. Why is the U.S. government and the coalation forces pumping billions into the country? All that money is just not being used for our military. It is also being used for humanatarian aid. I think they need to get up their own wallet!

Semper-Fi! "Never Forget" Chuck Hall

[thedrifter]

Given to me by hubby...fontman
Ellie

A Good Day's Work - Why Zarqawi's death matters
By Christopher Hitchens
Thursday, June 8, 2006

The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is excellent news in its own right
and even more excellent if, as U.S. sources in Iraq are claiming, it
resulted from information that derived from
people who were or had been close to him. (And, if that claim is black
propaganda, then it is clever black propaganda, which is also excellent
news.)

It hasn't taken long for the rain to start falling on this parade. Nick
Berg's father, a MoveOn type now running for Congress on the Green
Party ticket, has already said that he blames
President George Bush for the video-beheading of his own son (but of
course) and mourned the passing of Zarqawi as he would the death of any
man (but of course, again). The
latest Atlantic has a brilliantly timed cover story by Mary Anne
Weaver, which tends to the view that Zarqawi was essentially an American
creation, but seems to undermine its own
prominence by suggesting that, in addition to that, Zarqawi wasn't all
that important.

Not so fast. Zarqawi contributed enormously to the wrecking of Iraq's
experiment in democratic federalism. He was able to help ensure that the
Iraqi people did not have one
single day of respite between 35 years of war and fascism, and the last
three-and-a-half years of misery and sabotage. He chose his targets
with an almost diabolical cunning,
destroying the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad (and murdering the heroic
envoy Sérgio Vieira de Melo) almost before it could begin operations,
and killing the leading Shiite
Ayatollah Hakim outside his place of worship in Najaf. His decision to
declare a jihad against the Shiite population in general, in a document
of which Weaver (on no evidence)
doubts the authenticity, has been the key innovation of the insurgency:
applying lethal pressure to the most vulnerable aspect of Iraqi
society. And it has had the intended effect, by
undermining Grand Ayatollah Sistani and helping empower Iranian-backed
Shiite death squads.

Not bad for a semiliterate goon and former jailhouse enforcer from a
Bedouin clan in Jordan. There are two important questions concerning the
terrible influence that he has been
able to exert. The first is: How much state and para-state support did
he enjoy? The second is: What was the nature of his relationship with
Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaida?

For the defeatists and pacifists, these are easy questions to answer.
Colin Powell was wrong to identify Zarqawi, in his now-notorious U.N.
address, as a link between the Saddam
regime and the Bin-Ladenists. The man's power was created only by the
coalition's intervention, and his connection to al Qaida was principally
opportunistic. On this logic, the
original mistake of the United States would have been to invade
Afghanistan, thereby forcing Zarqawi to flee his camp outside Herat and
repositioning him for a new combat
elsewhere. Thus, fighting against al-Qaida is a mistake to begin with:
It only encourages them.

I think that (for once) Colin Powell was on to something. I know that
Kurdish intelligence had been warning the coalition for some time before
the invasion that former Afghanistan
combatants were making their way into Iraq, which they saw as the next
best chance to take advantage of a state that was both "failed" and
"rogue." One might add that Iraq under
Saddam was not an easy country to enter or to leave, and that no
decision on who was allowed in would be taken by a junior officer.
Furthermore, the Zarqawi elements appear to
have found it their duty to join with the Ansar al-Islam splinter group
in Kurdistan, which for some reason thought it was the highest duty of
jihad to murder Saddam Hussein's main
enemies. But perhaps I have a suspicious mind.

We happen to know that the Baathist regime was recruiting and training
foreign fighters and brigading them with the gruesome "Fedayeen
Saddam." (This is incidentally a clue to
what the successor regime in Iraq might have looked like as the
Saddam-plus-sanctions state imploded and Baathism itself went into eclipse.)
That bomb at the U.N.
headquarters in Baghdad, for example, was no improvised explosive
device. It was a huge charge of military-grade ordnance. Are we to believe
that a newly arrived Bedouin
Jordanian thug could so swiftly have scraped acquaintance with
senior-level former Baathists? (The charges that destroyed the golden dome of
the Shiites in Samarra were
likewise rigged and set by professional military demolitionists.)

Zarqawi's relations with Bin Laden are a little more tortuous. Mary
Anne Weaver shows fairly convincingly that the two men did not get along
and were in some sense rivals for the
leadership. That's natural enough: Religious fanatics are schismatic by
definition. Zarqawi's visceral hatred of the Shiite heresy was
unsettling even to some more mainstream
Wahhabi types, as was his undue relish in making snuff videos. (How
nice to know that these people do have their standards.) However, when
Zarqawi sought the franchise to call
his group "al-Qaida in Mesopotamia," he was granted it with only a few
admonitions.

Most fascinating of all is the suggestion that Zarqawi was all along
receiving help from the mullahs in Iran. He certainly seems to have been
able to transit their territory (Herat is on
the Iranian border with Afghanistan) and to replenish his forces by the
same route. If this suggestive connection is proved, as Weaver suggests
it will be, then we have the Shiite
fundamentalists in Iran directly sponsoring the murderer of their
co-religionists in Iraq. This in turn would mean that the Iranian mullahs
stood convicted of the most brutish and
cynical irresponsibility, in front of their own people, even as they
try to distract attention from their covert nuclear ambitions. That would
be worth knowing. And it would become
rather difficult to argue that Bush had made them do it, though no
doubt the attempt will be made.

If we had withdrawn from Iraq already, as the "peace" movement has been
demanding, then one of the most revolting criminals of all time would
have been able to claim that he
forced us to do it. That would have catapulted Iraq into Stone Age
collapse and instated a psychopathic killer as the greatest Muslim soldier
since Saladin. As it is, the man is
ignominiously dead and his dirty connections a lot closer to being
fully exposed. This seems like a good day's work to me.

-30-

Semper Fidelis,
Mark

[marinegreen]

Come one,come all, we gotta lil sumtin sumtin for your arse's.
AND ANOTHER ONE'S GONE,AND ANOTHER ONES GONE,ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, HEY WERE GONNA GET YOU TOO,ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST !!!

[booksbenji]

It's 1 hel*va weapon in a firefight. They brought it back in Iraq to backup the M-16 w/GL. I still see the shot gun is being used and I loves a 12ga with #4 buck and slugs. A good room cleaner