George And TIME's X-cellent Adventurism
The U.S. military wasted no time nominating new bogeyman, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, as Zarqawi's successor.
Good. Now we can attribute all the mayhem to this over-glorified evil doer; turn down three or four opportunities to take him out; bump him off when the Bush bounce fizzles; declare that the al-Masri era has ended; speculate what will happen to Iraq after al-Masri; enshrine him on the cover of TIME (as the rightful successor to Hitler, and the equally evil Saddam and Zarqawi); then (with a new modesty) declare victory yet again!
(photo montage: BAGnewsNotes. Cover: TIME Magazine. image: U.S. Army/Handout/Reuters. Baghdad. June 15, 2006. Via YahooNews)
