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Coulter: Zarqawi Dead, Bin Laden ‘Irrelevant’
When you have the best-selling book in the nation you can say a lot of things and people will listen. Ann Coulter, author of the white-hot "Godless," turned her sights on events in Iraq during a Thursday visit to Fox News Channel’s "Cavuto on Business” where she commented on the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"It is a great day for America, a great day for our troops, a day to be proud,” she said. "This is an amazing victory.”
Coulter, famous for skewering liberals, said many of her detractors will view this day with mixed emotions, a feeling that was confirmed by early media reports. [Editor's Note: Get Ann Coulter's new book for just $4.99 – Save $23! Go Here Now]
"It was almost like the way I would parody some liberals,” Coulter told show host Neil Cavuto. "We heard things like, ‘This is just going to encourage the cycle of violence’” [A comment from Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg, a contractor beheaded by al-Zarqawi]. It's funny how they [liberals] describe the war on terrorism in the most limited way possible – only as the pursuit of Osama bin Laden. He’s irrelevant now. He’s hiding in a cave. Al-Zarqawi was still killing people.”
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Coulter said despite any hand-wringing liberals may have in America about this incident and the war as a whole, the killing of al-Zarqawi was a great event. "The insurgency has been dealt an enormous blow,” she said, "so much more than if we had been served Osama’s head on a silver platter.”
Cavuto wondered if the euphoria surrounding the al-Zarqawi killing would translate to more positive feelings and media coverage about the ongoing war in Iraq. Coulter was not so sure it would. "It’s hard to imagine how the media carries on about this surprisingly low casualty war, compared to other wars,” Coulter said. "You can’t imagine trying to fight WWII with all of this commotion and carrying on every time an American soldier dies. Obviously, it breaks everyone’s heart because these [U.S. soldiers] are our greatest Americans.” Cavuto told Coulter that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., had praised the killing of al-Zarqawi earlier in the day, but re-iterated their call to pull troops from Iraq. Coulter laughed: "At least [Kerry’s] not taking this and every opportunity on the war on terrorism as a way to appeal to the French.” [Editor's Note: Get Ann Coulter's new book for just $4.99 – Save $23! Go Here Now]
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