Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - Posterboy For Bush Politics

The Daily Outrage - We didn't attack or kill or otherwise deal with Zarqawi's "death, no antidote, no cure, fatal" poisons camp because ... we needed it. For Colin Powell's UN speech. For the war in Iraq -- because this war, about which neocons (and sons of the first George Bush) have obsessed for years was far more important than all that post- 9/11 terrorism-fighting blather.

We declined to deal with known terrorists -- leaving them free to kill and kill again -- so that we could point to them and cry, "terrorist, terrorist!", and in the ensuing panic, invade an oil-and-tragedy soaked, yet unrelated, nation.

That's the Bush Administration in a nutshell. If Zarqawi is behind all the attacks the US government attributes to him, NBC News notes, he's killed upwards of 700 people -- not quite a September 11th death toll, but give him time, he's just getting started.

Unless, of course, he's been dead for months. But that's another story.