June 11, 2006

Khan Dead: Countdown to Genesis Detonation Continues

Jaysus, the AP just can't resist, can it?

AL-ZARQAWI's DEATH MAY NOT STOP CIVIL WAR

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi raised hopes that Iraq's slide toward civil war or sectarian disintegration could be arrested, but there are signs that Shiite-Sunni antagonism may now be too deeply rooted. Al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born Sunni Muslim, played a key role in stoking Shiite-Sunni tensions the past three years, ordering hundreds of bloody attacks against Iraqi Shiites and issuing vitriolic tirades seeking to deepen a religious schism that dates back 1,400 years.

I'm surprised the MSM hasn't started calling for a Pentagon audit to determine why we wasted the money on those 500 lb. bombs to begin with. After all, they're considerably more expensive than ordinary cabbages.


And now I'm off. When I start riffing Star Trek and Python in the same post, I know it's time to take a break......

Posted by Robert at June 11, 2006 05:41 PM | TrackBack
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Geneis Countdown Ends: Crisis with the Klingon Empire and Starship Thievery ahead?

Posted by: Tainted Bill at June 11, 2006 07:59 PM

I myself was also thinking of Star Trek II when I read the "Unsubstantiated story from lone Iraqi about Zarqawi being beaten to death by U.S. troops" hit job they offered recently. I said "My god, the AP is in full "from Hell's heart I stab at thee" mode, aren't they?"

Posted by: The Colossus at June 12, 2006 08:31 AM

On Friday, the front-page headline in my local dead-tree paper was "Zarqawi Death Solves Little." These people are really beginning to annoy me.

Posted by: utron at June 12, 2006 05:45 PM

From "Zarqawi! The Musical . . ."
As sung by a chorus of his burkha-clad wives.


"How do you solve a problem like Zarqawi?
How do you find his house and bomb it flat?
How do you find a word that means Zarqawi?
A terrorist leader? A jihadi hero?
A corpse!

Many a thing you know you'd like to tell him.
Many a thing he ought to understand,
But how do you make him stay?
In a safe house for over a day,
How do you keep the Predator drones at bay?

How do you solve a problem like Zarqawi?
Two GBU-12 Paveways are one way!"

Posted by: The Colossus at June 12, 2006 07:33 PM