Do you remember the announcement he put out at the anniversary of 9/11 in 2004?

“The American defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan has become just a question of time, God willing,” said Zawahiri.

“In the two countries, the Americans are between two fires: if they remain there they will bleed to death, and if they withdraw they will have lost everything.”

Give me a break.  IF WE STAY AND STEEL OUR RESOLVE WE WILL WIN.  With every murder like those of Menchaca and Tucker, they are helping us steel our resolve and helping us realize exactly what kind of enemy it is we’re facing.  With the loony left and journalists using their deaths as political fodder, we’re also realizing the enemy within.

The morale of the troops is high; that’s why they redeploy and go BACK after they come home.  The guys who’ve faced the enemy up close and personal have a definite idea of the danger we’re facing and it’s not simply a ‘war for oil’, or a case of ‘Bush lied men died’.  When you’re facing an enemy who wants to kill you down to your infant sons and daughters–just for being you–not for something you said, not for taking a political view–but simply because you were born American in a free country that is not ruled by sharia law–there is a definite problem.

Some think of this as the beginning of WWIII.

Zawahiri and his band of jackals are spreading more propaganda, and journalists and politicians are helping them.

Here are some observations about journalists and politicans helping them from Michael Reagan:

How many relatives, for example, did NBC News have to canvass before they found a kin of Pfc. Menchaca who would take the occasion of his relative’s murder to express his anti-administration views? NBC’s Today Show found Ken MacKenzie, Menchaca’s uncle, who obligingly told NBC, “Because the U.S. government did not have a plan in place, my nephew has paid for it with his life.” He added that the government should have offered a $100 million reward and offered to exchange mujahideen detainees for the soldiers’ lives. It seized enough money from Saddam Hussein to afford it, he said.

He had nothing to say about the brutes who murdered his nephew, and expressed no anger at them.

The Democrats all but jumped for joy over the sleazy opportunity they saw to exploit the soldiers’ deaths for their political purposes. Listen to Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin’s comment that the discovery of the two mutilated soldiers’ bodies is a “grim reminder of the price we’re paying for a failed policy in Iraq.”

Like McKenzie, he didn’t bother to direct his anger at the fiends who committed the atrocity.

Nor did he or any of his anti-war Democrat colleagues bother to note that the so-called “failed policy” in Iraq has produced 5 million Iraqi children inoculated since the U.S went into Iraq, or how many schools and hospitals have been built, the 32,000 teachers trained, that 20 million Iraqis now have clean water – all the positive things they or the media studiously ignore.

Now instead of the rage they should feel, these white-flag-waving Democrats are demanding that the U.S. set some sort of timetable for withdrawal, ignoring the fact that such an act would be a signal to the al-Qaeda butchers to be patient and hang in there and wait for the U.S. to cut and run.

Have they no shame?

No, they don’t.  They parade their victims in front of us so that we can’t respond to them, although I think Coulter blew a hole in that strategy with her fantastic book “Godless”.  Young men who sacrificed their lives for what we’re doing in Iraq have been victimized again by the press; and you can depend on leftists to find a relative (like Gold Star Families for Peace or the Jersey Girls) to blame it on the Bush Administration instead of the people who actually perpetrated the crime and focusing in on what we’re really facing.  This makes the case for us to get an army of psyschologists together because it appears to me as though they’re transferring blame, much like people in alcoholic homes do from the alcoholic.  This is very sick behavior.

And then you have an interview with an Al Qaeda Cameraman… which is another example of how the journalists are all-too happy to interview terrorists, terrorists’ relatives, and democrats; all belonging to the same hate American crowd.

Associated Press correspondent Kathy Gannon conducted a range of interviews, including one with a cameraman for al-Qaeda, for a rare look at how the terror group makes and distributes its videos.

Oh yes, we want to UNDERSTAND what it is they’re doing, pat them on the back, look at them sympathetically, and in the process, score political points on the backs of soldiers who got their legs blown off, slain tortured mutiliated soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

But mum’s the word on Saddam’s victims, oh no, you can’t talk about “Father Saddam’s” atrocities, just like the pictures of Abu Ghraib are acceptable (because it’s a reflection on the quagmire of Iraq which indicts the Bush administration), but pictures of people jumping out of the towers are not; you can’t exhume the bodies of the family members from the Haditha incident to get forensic evidence that might clear the marines (who haven’t been charged but they’ve been convicted in the media) citing the religious rites of Islam as the deterrent, but apparently in some cases, such as the extensive exhumations of bodies in Saddam’s mass graves, it’s perfectly acceptable.

I don’t see any consistency here.  It would seem as though if you could exhume bodies that were buried in mass graves, you most certainly could exhume bodies in Haditha if it’s a matter of life and death…and it certainly is for those marines; they could be facing the death penalty if convicted.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda’s second-in-command vowed vengeance against the United States for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq killed in a U.S. air strike two weeks ago.

“Yes (George W.) Bush, there isn’t a single person who’ll be killed that we won’t get vengeance for, God willing,” Ayman al-Zawahri said in comments addressed to the U.S. president on a videotape aired by al Jazeera television late on Friday.

“Do you remember, Bush, the mujahid Osama bin Laden’s vow that America will not dream of security until we experience it in Palestine? … So try uselessly to dream of peace,” said Zawahri, bespectacled and wearing a black turban.

God willing (and that’s the Lord our God not Allah [the two are not the same]), there won’t be a single one of our mutilated soldiers, Iraqi or Afghan soldiers or civilians whose deaths won’t be avenged if I have anything to say about it; and I’m certain there are others who feel the same way; particular the boys in the field who’ve seen these things up close and personal.

That little dig about Palestine is curious.  Interesting how the Palestinians after getting their piece of land haven’t given up on their jihad.  They’re not happy with the little they’ve been given because they don’t think Israel has the right to exist and their goal is to drive the jews into the sea.  They will continue their reign of terror until that entire region is packed with Islamists and more christians and jews have died.

Desperate to counter speculation that Al Q has suffered significant losses which they’ll have difficulty recovering from, Al Qaeda has been very busy this past week putting messages out to ease fears within the ranks of the mujahideen and their journalist supporters that Zarqawi’s death will not effect their jihad against the infidels.  The video by Ayman al-Zawahri was posted on a jihadi discussion board within the same week as the audiotape by Osama bin Laden and a video by the head of al-Qaida’s branch in Iraq — a volley of messages by the group’s most prominent figures.

This is just a part of al-Qaida’s ongoing propaganda blitz to prove that they’re relevant and it makes me laugh.  Time Magazine has been playing along with this blitz since at least February or March, with their ridiculous propagation of disinformation about the civilian ‘murders’ in Haditha.  I’d like to know what Time Magazine and others get from Al Qaeda for helping them with their propaganda campaign and attempting to weaken our ability to fight the war on terror.  The NYT has done their part to hinder the war on terror with their public expose of the SWIFT program.

Now, I am not a supporter of Karzai because of his releasing terrorists from Pulacharke while assisting the State Department and the DOJ in keeping Jack Idema and Brent Bennett from being released in spite of the Afghan courts declaring them ‘innocent’ in a second trial.  But I found this little blurb actually made some sense, although from a politician, you can never tell what he actually means; actions speak louder than words in that world.

Just hours after the latest al Qaeda video and its exhortations were posted on an Islamic web site, Afghan Hamid Karzai fired back in the war of words, blaming al Qaeda deputy al-Zawahri for Afghanistan’s massive suffering before and after the Sept. 11 attacks.

“He is first the enemy of the Afghan people, and then the enemy of the rest of the world,” said Karzai. “He killed Afghans for years - thousands - and then he went to America and destroyed the twin towers… We in Afghanistan want him arrested and put before justice.”

Karzai went on to urge the international community to reassess its approach to the war on terror Thursday, saying the deaths of hundreds of Afghans in fighting with U.S.-led forces was “not acceptable.”

A clearly frustrated Karzai said the approach being taken by coalition forces to hunt down militants does not focus on the roots of terrorism itself.

“I strongly believe … that we must engage strategically in disarming terrorism by stopping their sources of supply of money, training, equipment and motivation,” said Karzai.

And how would you stop the sources of supply of money, training, equipment and motivation?  One might be…oh…the SWIFT program, which the NYT exposed in spite of US Government warnings as to the risk to national security and American lives.

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