Stupid Wisdom

Taking Zarqawi into custody would have been more useful

I know it might have been too dangerous and maybe impossible, but having Zarqawi alive or at least his laptop and/or contact list would have been very valuable. I doubt they will recover anything of any intelligence value from the rubble. No doubt he deserved to die, but now he is a martyr in the eyes of his followers. Had we recovered him and his contact list we could have made it appear as if he snitched out his partners in crime. The only type of propaganda the Bush administration seems to focus on is aimed at the US public. They want to control the news/media but instead they should be feeding the media and letting them do their job (reporting news). Zarqawi’s execution was carried out with two 500 pound bombs which is a bit of overkill in my opinion. Again that just raises his status in the eyes of his followers, as well as destroying any potential intelligence gains. I suppose though since the Bush administration doesn’t interrogate & prosecute terrorists it would have just been too much trouble for them to take him into custody. I suspect many of the terrorists we have in custody now will eventually be released when Bush is finished torturing them. Eventually human rights will outweigh any crimes they may have committed and bring more criticism from the world. OK they got Zarqawi now what?

After Zarqawi, no clear path in weary Iraq
Questions of leader’s legacy, followers’ unity are wide open