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A vote for Bush is a vote for Zarqawi

Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind

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.

The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

�Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn�t do it,� said Michael O�Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.

Yep, it’s safe to say a vote for the soft on terrorism Bush is a vote for Zarqawi. It’s just what he would want.

Categories: Iraq
  1. Ben
    March 4, 2004 at 11:42 pm | #1

    But if you aren’t with him you’re against him, and if you’re against him you’re for terror and if you’re for terror just like Zarqawi and you know what Bush did to Zarqawi…oh wait.

    There are days when I’m very, very happy I’m not an American. Then again there are days when my government drives me nuts too. At least they’re just stealing, lying thieves though and we keep it in the country. Also, nobody dies as a result of it.

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