Osama Bin Whozit?

Political cartoons; proving once again that death and war are hilarious.

I had a sit down chat two weeks ago to the day with a soldier who recently served in Iraq. Although I'm sure he must have been quite tired of the subject, we tended to focus on Iraq and the circumstances of his return. The soldier was back in the states following his survival of a suicide bombing at an Iraqi market.

One bit of news this soldier was particularly happy to relay was that Al-Zarqawi had been either killed or captured before he left. "We got 'im," was the exact quote. He said that we wouldn't hear about it for a while, but he was certain his information was correct.

The curious part of this story is the news coverage of Al-Zarqawi's death states that he died in the air strike conducted on Wednesday, a week and a half after I was let into the loop. Either the soldier I spoke to has a magnificent sixth sense, or there was a bit of funny business involving the entire situation. It wouldn't be the first time, I'm sure.

At any rate, Al-Zarqawi's death is great news in the war on terror. Now if we could only find Osama Bin Laden, Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, or our missing civil liberties. Oh, and someone tell the insurgents that they can stop killing people now.