I was going to say this, dadgum it!

Unbelievable. If the letter had shown that Osama was picking up converts by the wagonload, the same sentence would undoubtedly have concluded "raising questions about the Bush administration's contention that they have the support of the Iraqi people." Or "validating administration critics who warned the war on Iraq would only raise a new generation of bin Ladens."

But when the predicted wave of new recruits fails to materialize, that, too, proves the Bush administration was wrong.