Powerline and Ray Robison are both arching metaphorical eyebrows at the odd position taken by the Washington Post in recent reporting on al Zarqawi, and the US emphasis on him. Ray writes: Powerline dissects a Washington Post story that bugged the heck out of me as well. The main problem for me is that the WaPo is implying without actually having the nerve to state that U.S. psychological operations are targeting American citizens with factually incorrect information about jihadist al Zarqawi, the guy from those beheading videos. The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al—Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Powerline...(Read Full Post)