Reflections on the "New American" Revolution
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Bush let Abu Musab al-Zarqawi get away: "An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal confirmed and expanded on an 'NBC Nightly News' report from March that asserted that before the Iraq war, administration officials called off a planned attack that might have killed Mr. Zarqawi, the terrorist now blamed for much of the mayhem in that country, in his camp.
Citing 'military officials,' the original NBC report explained that the failure to go after Mr. Zarqawi was based on domestic politics: 'the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq' - a part of Iraq not controlled by Saddam Hussein - 'could undermine its case for war against Saddam.' The Journal doesn't comment on this explanation, but it does say that when NBC reported, correctly, that Mr. Zarqawi had been targeted before the war, administration officials denied it."
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