This time a letter was written to Zarqawi by a disgruntled underling complaining about the lack of moral among insurgents.
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The AP story seems to look at the report with great skepticism.
The letter's authenticity could not be independently confirmed. It was the latest in a series of claims by U.S.-led forces of progress in the fight against Iraq's bloody insurgency, including defeating militants in skirmishes, raiding their hidden arms caches and getting tips about them from Iraqi informants.
But the claims come at a time when insurgents have dramatically stepped up attacks, including large suicide bombings, killing nearly 170 people in six days.
Of course we will now hear that the recent uptick in attacks are due to the fact that we have our opponents so demoralized.
Scott Ritter had an article out the
other day that made a Vietnam-Iraq comparison. He didn't mention a similarity between the geopolitics of the two wars. He cited the similarity in both wars of miltary leaders claiming that progress was being made when it obviously was not.
Now in the Vietnam era there was eventually a press skepticism to these reports. Could it be that we are seeing it again? We are at least seeing it in the AP's Thomas Wagner who was reporting on this past weekends mayhem while stateside we were talking about runaway brides and Laura Bush.
It is striking that whenever the war doesn't seem to go well, something happens involving Zarqawi. As the prison torture scandal was breaking he was involved in a beheading. Of course we must remember that prior to the war we had a chance to get him. Link. He was needed then to prove a link between Saddam and terrorism. Amazing how often he seems to be needed now.