Bush Turned down chances to kill Zarqawi

[katty]

more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1627197.htm

Last Update: Monday, May 1, 2006. 7:55am (AEST)

Abu Musab al Zarqawi ... Former spy says the US had the terrorism figure in its sights. (File photo) (ABC TV)

Bush turned down chances to kill Zarqawi: ex-CIA spy
A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

Mike Scheuer headed the CIA's bin Laden unit for six years before resigning in 2004.

He has told the ABC's Four Corners program the Bush administration had Zarqawi in its sights almost every day for a year.

He says a plan to destroy Zarqawi's training camp in Kurdistan was abandoned for diplomatic reasons.

[katinmn]

1. Why kill a Golden Goose?

He and OBL are good for business!

[Kurovski]

3. That's it exactly.

K&R

[peacetalksforall]

5. or carrots on the sticks of political capital? n/t

[katty]

6. Precisely

[AndyA]

2. And Bush tells us he's tough on terrorism. He's protecting us from another

terra attack on our soil. We're fighting them over there, so we don't have to over here.

BULLSHIT!

Everything George Bush touches turns to shit. He's destroying America.

IMPEACH - PROSECUTE - INCARCERATE

[Karenca]

4. k & r eom

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Gunslingers?

"The reasons the intelligence service got for not shooting Zarqawi was simply that the President and the National Security Council decided it was more important not to give the Europeans the impression we were gunslingers," he said.

Silly me. I thought this was a war on terrorists. Even if invading Iraq wasn't really about terrorism or national security, what possible harm would it have done to have blown that asshole's brains out while our troops were securing the oil ministry?

the President and the National Security Council

Bush and Rice. Wouldn't you know?