Reply #10: Uh, I think you can probably remove the "what if"

[Spike from MN]

in the subject line. I love how "Zarqawi" always claims responsibility for terrorist acts everywhere yet we have never seen a videotape of the guy and/or heard an audio tape from him. Granted, both would be easy to fake but the average American never seems to question things once they are trotted out in the MSM so the tapes would be easy to pass off as legit. To me, either the Chimp administration is too lazy to be bothered with details like that or they're just being cavalier, knowing the average American is content to suck up whatever is presented to them by the MSM and go on with life. Especially now that gas prices are lower.

Like you NinetySix, I have never seen the insurgents as being an organized group. Actually, I suspect there are two separate classifications of so-called insurgents. One is comprised of small disparate groups that band together to fight the occupation of their country. A lot of the Iraqis would consider them to be patriots. The second group might indeed have centralized leadership, though it certainly isn't provided by Zarqawi. I'm thinking of something a lot closer to home. You hit the nail on the head when you asked "who stands to gain, and how?" The first name that comes to mind is certainly not Zarqawi.

On an added note, I was rather surprised that Giuliani wasn't in Jordan for a "conference" right about the same time as the bombings. I kind of expected him to be right there front-and-center. The Chimp administration must be slipping because they missed an opportunity to bring up 9/11 all over again.