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It's all so clear now...
Doghouse Riley sums up the War on Terra (tm) to date and the breaking Lincoln Group scandal, in comments on World o' Crap:
Ho ho hold up a minute. First, we invent the name al-Qaeda in the 90s, which may or may not have had the effect of creating a SPECTREsque global organization of Evil out of a few pissed-off mujahideen. Then, faced with an insurgency we didn't foresee, we may or may not have decided to designate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who may or may not be dead, as its titular head, one whom we say we believe is a close associate and ally of the guy who heads what might or might not be al-Qaeda, assuming he or it have survived, which we believe to be the case because the CIA--which may or may not have done the inventing--has confirmed that the recent videos they showed us are recent.
Then, for emphasis--because there might be some Americans who are still confused by this--we decide this Zarqawi, who may or may not be missing a leg and/or a head, assuming he had two or one to begin with, as the case may be, may or may not lead an organization called "al-Qaeda In Iraq", although no one else, assuming they exist, uses the name, and this, plus a captured floppy disk which we allegedly captured in several places as it was or wasn't being taken by courier to al-Qaeda Not in Iraq Headquarters (oddly, despite their masterfully nefarious internet operations, they have to lug floppies around in order to communicate), the contents of which we might have had translated by someone who didn't read Arabic because we're short on those.
So now, if I'm not mistaken, we're forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to combat what may or may not be a fictional creation of our own making because he's making people think he's more powerful than he is?
Yep, that about sums it up.
Ho ho hold up a minute. First, we invent the name al-Qaeda in the 90s, which may or may not have had the effect of creating a SPECTREsque global organization of Evil out of a few pissed-off mujahideen. Then, faced with an insurgency we didn't foresee, we may or may not have decided to designate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who may or may not be dead, as its titular head, one whom we say we believe is a close associate and ally of the guy who heads what might or might not be al-Qaeda, assuming he or it have survived, which we believe to be the case because the CIA--which may or may not have done the inventing--has confirmed that the recent videos they showed us are recent.
Then, for emphasis--because there might be some Americans who are still confused by this--we decide this Zarqawi, who may or may not be missing a leg and/or a head, assuming he had two or one to begin with, as the case may be, may or may not lead an organization called "al-Qaeda In Iraq", although no one else, assuming they exist, uses the name, and this, plus a captured floppy disk which we allegedly captured in several places as it was or wasn't being taken by courier to al-Qaeda Not in Iraq Headquarters (oddly, despite their masterfully nefarious internet operations, they have to lug floppies around in order to communicate), the contents of which we might have had translated by someone who didn't read Arabic because we're short on those.
So now, if I'm not mistaken, we're forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to combat what may or may not be a fictional creation of our own making because he's making people think he's more powerful than he is?
Yep, that about sums it up.