It’s a great day when a monster like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is eliminated with a pair of 500-pound bombs, but some people are freaking me out with their celebrations. I think it’s a little creepy when someone like Fox News anchor Sean Hannity practically gets aroused from watching the replay of the bombing video like some horny college kid who downloaded an amateur porn clip off the Internet and watches it on his computer monitor over and over and over…

While others are cheering al-Zarqawi’s death, I’m not ready to throw candy to children in the street like Palestinians did when word got out that we were attacked on September 11, 2001. Al-Qaeda likely has someone who can take al-Zarqawi’s place in Iraq and continue the insurgency against us. I don’t take the al-Qaeda terrorist organization for fools. Hell, even the neighborhood street gang has a heirarchy system or some sort of pecking order, so it’s not a stretch to believe al-Qaeda already had someone within their organization who could fill al-Zarqawi’s shoes if he were captured or killed.

So what will it take for me to yell, “America, fuck yeah!” at the top of my lungs? I’ll celebrate when we take out the big guy, the one who started this mess in the first place. With what we now know from the collection of Downing Street Memos, it doesn’t matter what we accomplish in Iraq at this point because it has no connection to the 9/11 terrorist attacks whatsoever. It was our invasion of Iraq based on fabricated prewar intelligence that empowered al-Zarqawi in the first place. I support our troops, but I don’t support the way they’ve been misused to fight President Bush’s resource war.

Our country should have spent the past five years concentrating on Osama bin Laden instead of a Middle Eastern country that had no connection to the 9/11 terrorists attacks. The American people should demand that they see something done in Afghanistan besides the destruction of poppy fields to prove we’re making progress against al-Qaeda.

We have to get Bin Laden, and American citizens shouldn’t settle for anything less. We don’t have to go as far as sticking Osama’s severed head on a pike and then parade it around the streets where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood to prove we’ve made progress in the war on terror, but it will take something of that magnitude for me to believe we’re fighting one in the first place.

Until then, the resource war in Iraq and the chaos it brings continues.

Robbie Gonzalez is an Independent blogger from El Cajon, California. You can read more of his commentary on politics, sports, current events, and things happening around San Diego by visiting his blog Greetings From America’s Finest City.

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