I have the utmost respect for all military personal for enlisting, going through the motion of boot camp, then being prepared to defend our country.

Going by the orders of killing a person versus, capturing them, lacks compassion.

Yes, the reports have been this man is responsible for killing American's and others abroad so; did he receive a fair trail is this the way it should have been handed?

In my opinion, fighting hate with hate, is more hate, how do you top that?

God Bless

"Oooo those nasty soldiers have no compassion. Oooo why didn't they try to talk Zarqawi down first? I'm sure they could have worked out their issues if they just sat down like adults and had a good cry together."

This isn't Oprah, this is the middle east. If you can't understand that Victoria - I can only count my blessings that you are not a decision maker in this war.

This terrorist was personally cutting the heads of innocent, defenseless human beings. Compassion? Sorry.

Terrorists are warped, rabid animals - with apologies to the SPCA - that need killing to protect the rest of society.

As much as some may wish differently, the world is not populated entirely of cute pink and white bunny rabbits, who all just want to get along.

what an amazing statement. As you may be able to tell by the actions of this butcher and others of his ilk, they do not care about anything else but you killing YOU and ME and anyone who does not follow their laws. And you want to give these animals a fair trial, correct? So they can spread their hateful, deadly message with every breath? Nice thinking, until G-d forbid, a bomb is dropped on a peaceful city. Then you will see all hatemongering fascistic Islamo-terrorists celebrating. A trial? Don't stick you head in the sand. This is WAR. Don't you get that? WAKE UP

Victoria, stop wringing your hands over this. Zarqawi was videoed as he personally cut the head off of a living human being. Stop worrying about him and a 'fair trail'.

I for one am extremely pleased that we are rid of al-Zarqawi without having to stomach another terrorist trial.

This is a WAR for crying out loud. And it's NOT, contrary to your liberal perceptions against IRAQ!

Good for the USA.

They have tried to capture him before and he got away. I don't think the issue here should be compassion but do we try and capture him with the chance that he will escape again or do we make sure we get him. If he has a chance to escape then you may have to watch another film of a living victim having their head slowly sawed off by this man.

The moment Zarqawi videotaped and distributed the sawing off the head of an innocent American, his 'fair trial' was obliterated. Good thing they bombed him into oblivion.... his poor ethereal virgins wont have much to work with.

Sorry Victoria, Zarkawi had the option to surrender and receive a fair trial and he chose not to a long time ago. So it was decided to deliver justice to him in the form of some U.S. military munitions. Why risk the lives of more military personnel so that he could be arrested and tried Clintonian style? Don't forget that Zarqawi wanted to kill you just for being an American. Not very compassionate of him, was it? Zarqawi's own hate resulted in his own demise. God Bless America!

What is it about WAR that most people don't seem to understand?

Hey, we captured a large number of these terrorist and where are they? Have you forgotten we captured Saddam Hussein or did you forget? And isn't he getting a fair trial?

Some of these guys don't like the rules at all! I am sure Mr. al-Zarqawi has been given ample notice to give himself up, with the 25 million dollar reward and all. And I don't think anyone in that area was playing "hide-and-seek" like little children do. Heck no, they have real guns and they kill people and stuff. But shame on those who choose not to try your tactic of capturing every mass murderer first.
al-Zarqawi has been eluding our military forces and killing innocent civilians and our military and you want us to talk about capturing him? I don't see anything reasonable in your request, its too dangerous of a request, but next time you go and stand in for the military and try to get someone like UBL to give himself up. What you haven't left yet?

No tears shed over the bombing - the equivalent of taking a sledge hammer to a fly - but how much more useful it might have been to "encourage" him to tell us what he knows (including info on what his "boss" has been doing). That is, if there was anyone who really wanted to know this intelligence.

It's war - not America's Most Wanted. They only time you can hold a trail for war criminals like AMAZ is after the surrender of the enemy. Until then it's open season on these vermin.

A wonderful day! Hopefully this is a step closer to the end. Someone doesn't necessarily have to take his place, as many have suggested. Noone took Hitler's place in Germany, just because he left this earth. Rationality soon took over and Germany is a pretty good place now.

Victoria,
I'm glad that there are compassionate people like you in the world. I am further relieved that there are people willing to take a life to save many other lives. There is not hate verses hate here. It is a simple matter of getting evil off the planet for the betterment of everyone

So let's say we stormed the house and tried to take him alive.

Maybe you would not mind calling the mother of the kid that got killed trying to storm that house and take him alive. I know I would not want to make that call. "Well, we could have just killed him but we thought that was not very nice so we tried to take him alive and that is when your son got killed. Sorry. "

They made the right decision.

I'm just happy he's dead and I trust our field commanders to make the right decision. How much hay would the moonbats, both MSM and free range types, make of the news that we had tried to capture him instead of bombing him and he got away?

Thsi was the right move and I'm damn glad we have the technology to take out this garbage without risking a single American or loyal Iraqi life.

Zarqawi was probably more valuable dead that alive. Why would anyone care? I sure wouldn't want to feed that jihadi.

As long as he is stopped. Dead is better.

Good Job To Our Military!!

We are blessed to have such corragous men & women in our military.

I am totally for the war in Iraq & I hope we move to Iran after we are finished with that job.

No terrorist should be givin any mercy. I can't wait until they find Bin Ladin, I hope he meets the same end.

The only thing we achieved by blasting Zarqawi into pieces, was maiking him into a martyr. We have captured other Al Qaeda operatives who are higher up than him. The real question is, why didn't George Bush kill Zarqawi before the Iraq war started when he had the opportunity to do so? The CIA knew exactly where he was and this Admin didn't give them the go ahead to drop a bomb on his head then. Hmmmm, maybe he wanted him alive back then to trump up a Hussein/Al Qaeda connection for the purposes of going to war. Zarqawi should have been dead before he ever got the chance to behead those poor Americans.

Did he receive a fair trial, Victoria?

Exhibit One: Video-tape of him murdering Nick Berg.

Yes, I believe he received a fair trial in the end.

Let's be practical: Zarqawi would have been more valuble captured and interrogated than he is dead. If it were feasible, with a high probability of success, our people would have put the habeus grabbus on him. It wasn't so they didn't! To say that compassion or lack of it was a factor is silly.

In addition to the 5 men killed in this raid, there was a woman and her young child killed; furthermore, multiple civilians seem to be killed in every one of our operations over there, because nobody in our military or in the Bush administration acknowledges any moral responsibility for how they carry out their actions--think Abu Ghraib here. Victoria is absolutely right to bring up this point and the rest of you well, are not men yet until you take your thumbs out of your mouths and start demanding some effort and character from the people you put in charge of things. Anybody who thinks the most powerful nation on earth can't spare the effort to take some people in a house prisoner to avoid needless deaths is making excuses for your own lack of character.

I believe I have the best idea for bin Laden's end. The US needs to gather several bears and make them mean and once bin Laden's cave is located where he is hiding do not feed the bears for several days and put them in the cave and let then have him for a snack.

Just exactly whose side are you folks on?
Could you please tell me that?

HOW COULD ZARQAWI HAVE KILLED SO MANY AMERICANS?
Before Iraq, it was not the common goat keeper who could hurt us but highly trained terrorists through elaborate and expensive plots. Our military, the best prepared in the world to deal with military threats, have been turned
into sitting ducks for the entertainment of people who would never have had a chance IN THEIR LIVES to hurt us.

The thousands of insurgents responsible for the death of Americans in Iraq would just be singing anti-American slogans today while taking care of their goats BUT WITHOUT THE ACTUAL ABILITY TO HURT A SINGLE AMERICAN or even to organize if it wasn't for our poorly justified presence in Iraq.
Could these people, yesterday goat herders today insurgents, have pulled off a 9/11? Well, they wouldn't have had a
chance to apply for a visa to get here like the 9/11 hijackers after 9/11. Could they have had a chance to trade their goat for a plane ticket to the US and flight school tuition? No. Would it have been easy for them to learn English and the ways of westeners also? No. But today they have on their hands almost as many american deaths as the 9/11 hijackers did.

IRAQ: A WAR OF NECESITY
WHAT ABOUT IF SADDAM DID HAVE WMDs?
(Just an envelope of weapon-grade anthrax can be enough to kill hundreds!)
-IF TONS OF COCAINE CAN MAKE IT TO THE US AND NO AUTHORITY CAN STOP IT, THE NOTION THAT 140,000 TROOPS WOULD HAVE PREVENTED SADDAM FROM HANDING ANY QUANTITY OF ANTHRAX TO A TERRORIST, WHO COULD HAVE EASILY SNUCK OUT OF IRAQ AND MET NO RESISTANCE AT THE US/MEXICAN BORDER IS A PRETTY STUPID NOTION.
-THEREFORE THEY SOLD US A WAR WITH AN ABSURD PRETEXT THAT ALSO TURNED OUT TO BE FALSE.
-THE NOTION THAT MILITARY FORCE (TANKS, AIRPLANES, ETC...) CAN BE EFFECTIVE TO FIGHT AN ENEMY WHO:
1 ONLY GATHERS IN SMALL CELLS
2 IS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE WORLD
3 HAS NO FLAG
4 HAS NO UNIFORMS AND
5 WOULD USE CIVILIAN AIRPLANES AND HOME-MADE BOMBS AS WEAPONS
IS A PRETTY STUPID NOTION.

HOW DID WE END UP BUYING THIS I WONDER?

Zarqawi taken alive would have been an inspiration to an element willing to take hostages and/or commit heinous acts to secure his release.

Spare me the emotion Victoria.

Lives were saved by erasing him.

If it was me, knowing that Abu survived the bomb I'd try to take him alive because he shure would have a lot of interesting things to tell. But keeping him alive would generate a lot of trouble and a long meaningless trial. So I would give him a shot to put him to sleep, take a pic, tell the world 'oh, he just died' and take him to some safe place to have a talk or two with the guy and dump him later. Maybe, just maybe, thats what happened...

I think that was the fairest trial I hve seen. My only regret is that there was a child killed during that bombing. That child had no beliefs.

Victoria, Victoria, Victoria,

Maybe "you" should consider going over to the Middle East and try "talking" these hoodlums into being nice people....These terror mongrels have a very long history of death and distruction. Don't ever forget that.

Well Virginia I agree with you sort of.I'd have loved seeing him taken alive.Then I would have turned him over to the families of those he killed with his car bombs and IED's.Of course since that monster was sothrilled with beheadings I would have instructed the families to find the dullest saw the could find and use it to cut off his head starting in the back of the neck

This is a war. The object of war is to kill your enemy, limit your losses and end the war as quickly as possible. It's not to put your troops into harm's way by trying to capture the enemy and give them a "fair" trial. And show these terrorists compassion??? This is war. Kill, limit, end...

What would Virginia and Rich have them do? Serve Zarqawi a subpoena? Get a grip.

blow up all the terrorist. they did it to us. have you forgotten already victoria?

Why take that animal alive to feed and clothe him during a trial like Hussein???? My tax dollars can be better spent that feeding/clothing/bedding a terrorist animal.