WTF Is It Now?!?

Ah #ucked up! Vote fer me!
The AWOL Wonderchimp's latest justification for the war in Iraq -

Bush pointed to Zarqawi as a reason to vote for Bush. His argument: Kerry doesn't understand that if the United States was not now pursuing Zarqawi in Iraq, Zarqawi would be wreaking havoc not in Iraq but in the United States. Yet Bush neglected to mention that his administration repeatedly passed up the chance to strike Zarqawi before the war in Iraq.

When Colin Powell presented the administration's case for war to the United Nations Security Council in February 2003, he showed satellite photos of the camp where Zarqawi was allegedly based. That means the administration, which was then maintaining no-fly zones in this part of Iraq, knew where he was. Yet it took no action. Why not? An NBC News story from last March notes, the "administration feared destroying the [Zarqawi] terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam."

- David Corn.