WTF Is It Now?!?

Questions mount over misadministration's failure to hit Zarqawi

"Why didn't we get that son of a bitch when we could?"
- Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the National Security Council director for combatting terrorism.

All you need to know -

On a day when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group claimed responsibility for ambushing and killing 50 US-trained Iraqi soldiers, Bush declared: "Our troops will defeat Zarqawi and his likes overseas in Iraq so we do not have to face them here at home."

That's pretty damn funny, considering Bunnypants passed on destroying Zarqawi not once, not twice, but three #ucking times.

Senior Pentagon officials said that even by spring 2002 Zarqawi had been identified as a significant terrorist target, based in part on intelligence that the camp he earlier ran in Afghanistan had been attempting to make chemical weapons, and because he was known as the head of a group that was plotting, and training for, attacks against the West.

He already was identified as the ringleader in several failed terrorist plots against Israeli and European targets, and was known to have been behind the October 2002 assassination of a senior American diplomat in Jordan.

But Bush rejected any strike on Zarqawi until after he started his trumped-up war with Iraq.

This is the guy who says he's "the best candidate to protect the United States from terrism"?