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From: LindyBill6/9/2006 9:39:18 PM
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Worst Zarqawi piece [Cliff May]
My old buddy David Corn of the Nation was on Diane Rheim’s NPR radio show this morning trying to sell the chestnut that Osama bin Laden is pleased that Zarqawi is dead – because Zarqawi is more valuable to the movement as a martyr than as a terrorist commander.

I think that’s utter nonsense, spin and clap-trap gussied up as sophisticated analysis. I say that with all due respect, of course.

re: worst zarqawi piece [Cliff May]
Tom Joscelyn reminds me that a couple of years back "people like Corn were the ones pitching the 'Zarqawi isn't really al Qaeda' storyline in their attempt to distance Zarqawi from bin Laden in order to argue that he wasn't really part of the same war on terrorism. "Now, bin Laden is merely using Zarqawi's martyrdom as propaganda!"

I'd add this:

To so many on the left,



· If Zarqawi kills Americans, he's winning!



· If Zarqawi kills innocent Iraqis, he's still winning because he's proven that the Americans can't stop him! Bush is losing!



· And even when Zarqawi is killed, he's still winning because the Americans have made him a martyr which is useful to the cause — the cause to which two years ago Zarqawi could not be linked!



Bin Laden's own Director of Communications couldn't spin developments better than that.

corner.nationalreview.com
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