Despite the corrections of the people in the know,  Bush and Co. continue their FOX-y ways,  and just bang the hell out of propagandistic ideas.  This latest one ,  using “Al Qaeda in Iraq”,  continues the Bush tradition of relying on the uninformed,  who blindly accept Bush/Fox News distortions as “gospel”. 

Juan Cole on this today, after Bush banged on the theme yesterday: 

Bush maintained in his speech that the members of “al-Qaeda in Iraq” have pledged fealty (bay’at) to Usama Bin Laden. There is no evidence for this allegation. The foreign fighters who make up “al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia” are successors to previously-existing radical Muslim groups such as Ansar al-Islam and Monotheism and Holy War, both of which had distinct identities from al-Qaeda. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi even at one point forbade members of Monotheism and Holy War to give money to al-Qaeda.

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