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Originally Posted by stripersnipr
Beheading American civilians is small involvement in violence? And like it or not when a field operative in a leadership position is eliminated the game changes. What is it with Liberals trying to down play every signifigant American success in Iraq?
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What Zarqawi did do intentionally had a
big impact media wise (hell he pissed off nearly as many Muslims as he did Americans) but in relative terms the influence of foreign fighters wasn't the prime source of instability problems, nor is it's elimination the solution. It will help, but how much remains to be seen...
And this isn't about being negative to American success...my comments are to put the event into perspective as the Administration has distorted his role.
Did you know that in 2004 NBC reported the Pentagon requested permission
3 times to take Zarqawi out (before the Iraq war) in 2002. They were concerned he would raise some hell in Europe and given the post 9/11 mindset wanted to eliminate the problem.
The requests were denied as the Administration didn't want to upset their case for war with Saddam. Much better to make wild accusations Zarqawi and Saddam were drinking tea together on cool evenings after evening prayers
He was an evil man and our special ops have spent 2 freaking years tracking him down...but his role in this chapter of the "war on terror" should be looked at in context. The real world is a lot more nuanced than many would like to believe.
-spence