oh, don't worry. you won't see that reflected in pump price until next month. but if the same guy threatened to blow up a pipeline your gas price would jump 5 cents before the end of the day. what a crock. it seems that only the increases in oil price have a quick match with an increase in gas prices...the declines in gas prices don't come around for another few weeks or so after the declines in oil prices. but..i'm optimistic. oil prices are all about irrational fears right now. doomsday scenarios. no one is comfortable with them this high, including overseas suppliers.
Saddam gone, Zarqawi gone,...The momentum for a better Iraq is evident! Momentum is on the side of the good guys. This is undeniable...If I'm joe terrorist, this is a BIG, BIG, BIG psychological blow. You can't trust who you thought...The main insurgent leadership is out, with others with him...The terrorists is thinking WTF right now. How do we communicate? How can we stay in safe places? It will be difficult to replace the leadership and gain any level of where they were... I love it! There is still more to do, but this is a real opportunity! A real BIG opportunity in more ways than one!
It doesn't take a fool to understand that more innocent Iraqis..prob all Shia... were dying due to a.z. than Amercian soldiers. Curious ... could it be that a.z. was not fighting occupation but had some ulterior motives? Can't wait to hear your spin.
Can it not be argued that Zarqawi was able to kill innocent Iraqis because of Bush's failed pre and post war policies ? Wasnt he basically just a creation of the adminstration's mistakes ? Having said that, he was a terrorist and would have committed terrorist attacks somewhere to prove his misguided point, but the Bush adminstration gave him a theater to do that in. So his death, while a major victory for the American soldiers, is basically the Bush adminstration's correction of a typo ( a major one) on their book report.
If you take away the "mistakes" that are Zarqawi, and ilk minded war-mongering death-dealing terrorists, what you have left is a vast majority of special people who are Iraqis that ARE making a real differance in their own country and are doing their best to have a peaceful country where you don't have a diabolical, murderous dictator and a peaceful country free of terroristic endeavor...I cannot be more proud of the bravery of these people...You have a story of an Iraqi nicknamed: supercop, who admitted he would die by the hands of the terrorists, but he would be unafraid if he can make a differance. He is reported as putting over 260 insurgents behind bars before his demise...If one Iraqi can make a real differance, then the terrorists know there is more and the grip of the terroristic hand while not hacked off is showing signs of losing it...
how come these same iraqis weren't so special when a decade or so of sanctions killed over a million of them?
If it makes you feel better Creepy, Iranians are "special" also...I have a friend at work who is from Iran. He is my friend and I give him a hug, and mock the language in a playful way...He is Americanized though, so I don't know how you feel about that.
Unfortunately, I have my doubts. I think you give "Al-Qaeda", whatever exactly this entity is, too much credit. I highly doubt that operations are predicated upon the coordination by some central command leadership. More like different groups of disgruntled individuals. The fact of the matter is that we are fighting an insurgency. It makes little difference that one man was killed when the lifeblood of the resistance is in the people itself. I really think Zarqawi and these other characters are of little relevance to the issue at hand, especially when there are likely many more to step into their shoes.
P.S. I learned a Pakistani phrase which translates to "what are your worries"...and I thought it was his native tongue, and everytime I see him at work both he and I repeat the phrase in a playful way when we see each other...
Huh? what does any of this have to do with this thread? I was in the world cup thread talking about Djirbirl Cisse and who France was gonna replace him with and DaDakota started talking about Iran in there with me too lol...where's Deckard to straighten this madness out
On the contrary Zarqawi handled a big part of communication and usually did by non-technology to avoid detection (such as writing, or word). Yes, insurgency of the terroristic folks act loosely, but his leadership was tantamount and significant. Sen. Feinstein says she believes it will make a differance and for ONCE, I believe her.
