Didn't the terrorist leader get the latest talking points from the Democrats?

A new video by al-Qaida's deputy leader Thursday left no doubt about what the terror network claims is at stake in Iraq — describing it as a centerpiece of its anti-American fight and insisting the Iraqi insurgency is under its direct leadership.

But the proclamations by Ayman al-Zawahri carried another unintended message: reflecting the current troubles confronting the Sunni extremists in Iraq, experts said.

The Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group that is claimed by al-Qaida, has faced ideological criticism from some militants, and rival armed groups have even joined U.S. battles against it. A U.S.-led offensive northwest of Baghdad — in one of the Islamic State's strongholds — may have temporarily disrupted and scattered insurgent forces.

"Some of the developments suggest that it (the Islamic State) is more fragile than it was before," said Bruce Hoffman, a Washington-based terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. think tank.

Al-Zawahri "is trying to replenish the Islamic State brand," he said. "It's time to reassert its viability, but how connected to reality that is, is another issue."

In the unusually long video — at just over an hour and a half — al-Zawahri depicted the Islamic State of Iraq as a vanguard for fighting off the U.S. military and eventually establishing a "caliphate" of Islamic rule across the region.

But wait -- if al-Qaeda says there are terrorists in Iraq and that it is the central front in the war on terrorism, doesn't that mean that the Democrats are wrong when they claim that neither of those things are true? Furthermore, if the Democrats succeed in getting American troops out of Iraq, doesn't that mean that they are handing al-Qaeda precisely the victory that terrorist group is seeking?

Not, of course, that the Democrats would ever seek to undercut US troops in the field and hand victory to our enemies *cough!* Vietnam *cough*.

H/T Llama Butchers

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