UPDATE: More good news. Vice President Cheney:
"Iraq was a safe haven for terrorists, it had a guy running it who had started two wars, who had produced and used weapons of mass destruction. Taking down Saddam Hussein was exactly the right thing to do. It's also, I think, in part responsible for the fact that we haven't been hit again in nearly five years. That's no accident."
Cheney's remarks came on the coat-tails of a 93-6 vote by the Senate and a 256-153 vote by the House, both rejecting an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of US troops in Iraq.
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According to headlines linked by Drudge, the US Military has uncovered a "huge treasure" of information in the ruins of the "safe house" where Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed last week.
And they've been busy too, carrying out over 250 raids since Al-Zarqawi's death. Iraqi forces carried out another 140 raids, and these raids netted a combined casualty count of over one hundred insurgents terrorists.
Here is an excerpt from an Al-Qaeda strategy document recovered from the Al-Zarqawi "safe house" that outlines their plans to foment war between the US and Iran:
The resistance fighters have learned from the result and the great benefits they reaped, when a struggle ensued between the Americans and the Army of Al-Mahdi. However, we have to notice that this trouble or this delegated war that must be ignited can be accomplished through:
1. A war between the Shi'a and the Americans.
2. A war between the Shi'a and the secular population (such as Ayad 'Alawi and al-Jalabi.)
3. A war between the Shi'a and the Kurds.
4. A war between Ahmad al-Halabi and his people and Ayad 'Alawi and his people.
5. A war between the group of al-Hakim and the group of al-Sadr.
6. A war between the Shi'a of Iraq and the Sunni of the Arab countries in the gulf.
7. A war between the Americans and Iraq. We have noticed that the best of these wars to be ignited is the one between the Americans and Iran, because it will have many benefits in favor of the Sunni and the resistance, such as:
1. Freeing the Sunni people in Iraq, who are (30 percent) of the population and under the Shi'a Rule.
2. Drowning the Americans in another war that will engage many of their forces.
3. The possibility of acquiring new weapons from the Iranian side, either after the fall of Iran or during the battles.
4. To entice Iran towards helping the resistance because of its need for its help.
5. Weakening the Shi'a supply line.
The question remains, how to draw the Americans into fighting a war against Iran? It is not known whether American is serious in its animosity towards Iraq, because of the big support Iran is offering to America in its war in Afghanistan and in Iraq. 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:
1. By disseminating threatening messages against American interests and the American people and attribute them to a Shi'a Iranian side.
2. By executing operations of kidnapping hostages and implicating the Shi'a Iranian side.
3. By advertising that Iran has chemical and nuclear weapons and is threatening the west with these weapons.
4. By executing exploding operations in the west and accusing Iran by planting Iranian Shi'a fingerprints and evidence.
5. By declaring the existence of a relationship between Iran and terrorist groups (as termed by the Americans).
6. 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.
Why start a US-Iran war? Because they are losing -- big time. And the diversion that a US-Iran war would create is their only hope of getting America off their backs. Here's more:
As an overall picture, time has been an element in affecting negatively the forces of the occupying countries, due to the losses they sustain economically in human lives, which are increasing with time. However, here in Iraq, time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance for the following reasons:
1. By allowing the American forces to form the forces of the National Guard, to reinforce them and enable them to undertake military operations against the resistance.
2. By undertaking massive arrest operations, invading regions that have an impact on the resistance, and hence causing the resistance to lose many of its elements.
3. By undertaking a media campaign against the resistance resulting in weakening its influence inside the country and presenting its work as harmful to the population rather than being beneficial to the population.
4. By tightening the resistance's financial outlets, restricting its moral options and by confiscating its ammunition and weapons.
5. By creating a big division among the ranks of the resistance and jeopardizing its attack operations, it has weakened its influence and internal support of its elements, thus resulting in a decline of the resistance's assaults.
6. By allowing an increase in the number of countries and elements supporting the occupation or at least allowing to become neutral in their stand toward us in contrast to their previous stand or refusal of the occupation.
7. By taking advantage of the resistance's mistakes and magnifying them in order to misinform.
To summarize: they're screwing up, and we're exploiting their mistakes. We have caused strife and division within their ranks. We are killing and arresting them. We are taking away their money. We are turning the tide of public opinion against them. And we are putting together an effective Iraqi National Guard that is capable of cleaning out terrorist enclaves without our help.
Shorter summary: They are losing. Big-time.
WizBang's Kim Preistap also noted that Al-Zarqawi's plans included as part of their goals:
To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase the number of supporters who are refusing occupation and show the clash of interest between society and the occupation and its collaborators. To use the media for spreading an effective and creative image of the resistance. (emphasis added)
Psssst: Anyone out there in the MSM listening? You're being duped.
It should be consolation to everyone -- excepting Al-Qaeda -- that as American deaths pass the 2500 mark (tragic, though a miraculously small number for a military campaign in its third year) we continue to amass evidence that we are winning. Let's hope that the chicken-hearted among us do not allow the deaths of their fellow Americans to be in vain by convincing us to quit before the job is done.
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