Zawahiri Mocks Dem's Troop Withdrawal Bill

Al Qaeda no. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri wished for hundreds of thousands of U.S. dead in a new video.
It's been a hard week for liberal Democrats.

The week began badly enough when President bush vetoed the pork-laden Iraq troop withdrawal bill, proving no matter how much Democrats paid in tack-on funding to buy Congressional anti-war votes, the will of American people still resides with the president and not with a slim Senate and House majority. Some pundits noticed that Congressional Democrats seemed uncomfortable wearing the self-perceived mantle of power and were whining and moaning as if they were still in the minority.

Soon after Bush acted on the legislation, the veto held firm when Congressional Democrats failed to raise enough votes to override the President.

Later in the week, when liberally biased MSNBC cable news hosted the first Republican Presidential debate, Fox News had more viewers in the same time slot who would rather watch Fox pundits talking about the event than sit through MSNBC's Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews candidate baitng.

Finally, when it could not get any worse, Al Qaeda no. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a video posted today on the Internet, mocked Democrats about the failure of the bill and flatly contradicted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's statement that "the war is lost."

From the ABC News story:

"This bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap," Zawahiri says in answer to a question posed to him an interviewer.

Continuing in the same tone, Zawahiri says, "We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed, in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson."

ABC News also reports, based on the references to the bill, the tape, produced by al Qaeda's propaganda arm, as-Sahab, appears to have been made after Congress passed the legislation last week but before President Bush vetoed in on Thursday.

AP reports Democrat leaders are in closed-door negotiations with White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and other senior aides to the Republican president to see if they can reach agreement on a second bill.

More coverage from The Associated Press.

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