We captured Saddam. Did all the Baathists go home and get honest jobs? You're fighting movements more than people. You can make a dent in them by killing the leaders--it's helping in Israel--but there is rarely one guy you can knock off that will just stop things in their tracks. That's one of the things that makes this war difficult.

Adolf Hitler died in a bunker, the war already completely lost, his death almost irrelevant.

Imagine that at the rise of the Third Reich, say November, 8, 1939, Hitler is assassinated. Would the Nazi movement have collapsed? Or would there have been a glorious Teutonic state funeral, attended by hundreds of thousands, and presided over by the New Boss, Same As The Old Boss?

It's obvious to most people that men like Zarqawi are carrying the leadership load for the terror movement. Bin Laden survives as a name only. There would certainly be some symbolic success in nailing him (if he were still alive), but it wouldn't win the war by itself.

I would see the death of Zarqawi as a much greater victory at this point than anything having to do with bin Laden. But he could be replaced, too. If we can manage kill the replacement soon after (no small feat in the venue we're fighting in), then we'll be on to something.