Post: Zarqawi was useful propaganda source for Admin.

...of my local paper, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, devotes
the whole left side of the page to two stories about these
"raids targeting al-Zarqawi followers." And one of
the sources they quote -- a "terrorism expert" from
the Swedish National Defense College -- suggests,
conveniently, that our side is winning this war on Evil,
offering as evidence the statistic that "40 % of leaders
are dead." The "terrorism expert" then
concludes that the replacement leaders filling the gaps just
don't have the stones to carry on a terror war, like those
that have already been terminated. Leaving the reader with a
strong implication that the bright light shining over the
horizon just might be the dawn of a new peaceful era, in so
many words, spring-time for Bush and Rumsfeld, win-ter, for
Osama and Mullah Omar. 

It makes you proud to be an American, except for the fact that
every other bit of news that's come out of that country for
most of the last 15 or 16 years (starting with April Glasbie's
afternoon tea with Saddam) has been suppressed, distorted,
cooked or so full of holes as to be useless. 

So what's a skeptical news reader supposed to do? Go to
google. This is one of the more interesting sites I found, but
there must be dozens of others:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:qJMJVYSI4_kJ:www.voxfux.com/archives/00000114.htm+berg+phony+beheading&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

a search for zarqawi + bogus turned up interesting material,
too.

I read your Washington Post piece yesterday. Counterpunch.org
had a good one, too.