Hmmm. Well, now, what do we have here? Reports ABC News: "In yet another sign of trouble for al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden publicly conceded that his like-minded militants in Iraq "made mistakes." In an audiotape broadcast by Al Jazeera this week, he sounds deeply anxious about the survival of al Qaeda in Iraq -- a group that is largely independent of his own organization but adheres to a similar ideology. Al Qaeda's top leader appealed to Sunni Arab tribes and other armed Iraqi Sunni groups to stop fighting al Qaeda members and unite against the real enemy -- the U.S.-led coalition. Al Qaeda in Iraq faces growing indignation from fellow Sunni Iraqis fed up with its indiscriminate killing of civilians and its Taliban-like religious laws. In the past year, Sunni tribes and fighters have risen against al Qaeda's branch in Iraq and, working jointly with U.S. troops, killed and expelled scores of its militants from their neighborhoods, particularly from Anbar Province. Besieged both internally and externally, al Qaeda in Iraq struggles to survive and absorb these catastrophic military setbacks."
And yet some people in this country wish to claim that we're losing in Iraq? That we've lost? That we should bug out immediately?
They're wrong.
