The So-Called Zarqawi Document

Just in time for the Iraq war debate in the house today, FOX News delivers this headline: 'Document Found in Zarqawi Safehouse Reinforces U.S. Successes in Iraq". Well, isn't that convenient?

FOX's John Gibson pounces on the opportunity:

I must say, the angry left even had me thinking the war in Iraq is a mess, what with the seemingly constant bombings.

I differed, of course, on whether the war was right and necessary in the first place. I think it was, and they don't.

But now it turns out the terrorist Zarqawi has proved the angry left wrong, and convinced me that the Iraq war isn't quite the mess the big media would like us to believe.

The proof is in the text of a document found in an Al Qaeda safehouse that was either written by Zarqawi or is analysis provided to him by his terror team.

The document then goes on to lay out several lists of the terrorists' problems. They are best summed up this way: The American strategy is working. The best way for the terrorists to win is for the American forces to leave.

Let's take a look at that 'proof'. (Note that Gibson believes this actually is authentic, while other news sources like CNN are using the word 'alleged'.)

Here are some excerpts (via CNN). While you're reading these, keep in mind other al Quaeda dispatches and statements to see if you can find any similarities:

Hence, it is necessary first to exaggerate the Iranian danger and to convince America and the west in general, of the real danger coming from Iran, and this would be done by the following:

By disseminating threatening messages against American interests and the American people and attribute them to a Shiite Iranian side.
By executing operations of kidnapping hostages and implicating the Shiite Iranian side.
By advertising that Iran has chemical and nuclear weapons and is threatening the west with these weapons.
By executing exploding operations in the west and accusing Iran by planting Iranian Shiite fingerprints and evidence.
By declaring the existence of a relationship between Iran and terrorist groups (as termed by the Americans).
By disseminating bogus messages about confessions showing that Iran is in possession of weapons of mass destruction or that there are attempts by the Iranian intelligence to undertake terrorist operations in America and the west and against western interests.
Let us hope for success and for God's help.

'Americans'? 'God's'? 'Bogus'?

How about 'infidels? 'Allah's? And whatever word, which is not American slang, for 'bogus'?

Does this really look like anything you've ever seen from a radical Islamic jihadist?

'God's'??

Come on.

How do you spell 'Bush propaganda'?

And yes, this document was referred to by some Republicans in the house today to justify the Iraq war.