Salon has a short item explaining why Bush decided to let Zarqawi kill thousands of innocent people instead of taking him out when he had the chance to years ago:
As NBC News reported back in 2004, U.S. military planners drew up plans to take out Zarqawi three times in 2002 and 2003, but the Bush administration killed the plans each time. Why? Because, military officials told NBC, the Bush administration feared that destroying Zarqawi's terrorist camp in Iraq "could undercut its case for war against Saddam."
