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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's some highlights from the Zarqawi letter, just to give you a little upside in a word-for-word idea of this letter that we have seized. This is "a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaida's No. 2 leader said the United States 'ran and left their agents' in Vietnam and the jihadists must have a plan ready to fill the void if the Americans suddenly leave Iraq." Now, you know, as you read the letter you find so many references to the same criticisms that the left makes about this war here in this country. Says...

War On Terror: The deal on a new constitution struck by Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites has been described by parties on all sides as a "breakthrough" and underscores a key point about our presence in Iraq: It is not Vietnam. Calls for the U.S. to exit Iraq as disgracefully as it abandoned Vietnam entirely miss what's taking place. Slowly, painfully, democracy is grinding out victories, while Islamofascism — President Bush's new term — is losing. On the very day a deal on the new Iraqi Constitution was announced, the good news was forced to share media attention with a suicide...

In the name of God, praise be to God, and praise and blessings be upon the Messenger of God, his family, his Companions, and all those who follow him. ................................. The gracious brother/Abu Musab, God protect him and watch over him, may His religion, and His Book and the Sunna of His Prophet @ aid him, I ask the Almighty that he bless him, us, and all Muslims, with His divine aid, His clear victory, and His release from suffering be close at hand. Likewise, I ask the Almighty to gather us as He sees fit from the glory of...