Help me out here folks ..

[auntAgonist]

What do I say to the 'fool' who says that going after Zarqawi when bush had the chance .... ???


"would have been a bigger debacle than the Iraq war in the first place. Consider the setting, we had very few troops in place, and the new weapons inspections had not started yet.

C'mon, the world gave us a hard enough time without us attacking before the inspectors even went to Iraq. This is just a shot at Bush, politically charged and all. No politician would have even dared to touch it.""


I'm at my wits end with this guy.

[Richardo]

1. Weaponized Predator drones could have taken him out...

...which were available by then, if I'm not mistaken.

[rogerashton]

2. Zarqawi was in the northern zone under our protection.

If we had tried to take him out, Saddam would have cooperated -- very quietly, to be sure -- or we could have, equally quitely, let S know that he could come in and get the guy and we wouldn't notice that he was there until he had Zarqawi in Abu Graib. No more Zarqawi. Simple as that.