Talking Points for the Enemy

I am officially fed up with the cable news talking heads and other Bush supporters who compare Democrats and those who criticize the administration's inept handling of the situation in Iraq with the words of Osama bin Laden. It's not just the usual suspects at Fox News, or the likes of Newt Gingrich, but the supposedly neutral, like Chris Matthews who was joining in the game last week.

If they want to talk about people giving Osama something to talk about in his next tape, or providing the terrorists with support for their rhetoric, let's hear them discuss this:

DAMADOLA, Pakistan - Sympathy for al-Qaida has surged after a U.S. airstrike devastated this remote mountain hamlet in a region sometimes as hostile toward the Pakistani government as it is to the United States.

A week after the attack, villagers insist no members of the terror network were anywhere near the border village when it was hit. But thousands of protesters flooded a nearby town chanting, "Long live
Osama bin Laden!"

Pakistan's army, in charge of hunting militants, was nowhere to be seen.

The rally was the latest in a series of demonstrations across Pakistan against the Jan. 13 attack, which apparently targeted but missed al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri.

The military still mans numerous checkpoints in the area, but it appears to be keeping a low profile so it will not inflame villagers still seething over the deaths of 13 civilians, including women and children, in the attack.