Playing catch-up with my blog reading from the past week, I find another item linked by Cori Dauber: a Washington Post editorial that reports something Cori correctly thinks should have been on the news pages:

“The judicial court of the Organization of al Qaeda in Iraq has ruled that it is a duty to uphold God’s law and kill those who have declared themselves God’s partners in drafting this constitution.”

— Abu Musab Zarqawi

As the Post said:

Had al Qaeda set out to prove to a growing number of doubters that the war in Iraq really is about democracy — and not about oil, hubris or imperialism — its leaders couldn’t have done so more clearly.

Yup.