I may have to start numbering all the revelations that beating Al Qaeda is now tied to our success in Iraq. First, we discover a plot to have 19 suicide bombers try and attack the NYC subway system through the capture of three terrorists in Iraq. And now the US obtains an agreement from Bin Laden’s deputy to the Iraqi terrorists:

The United States has obtained a letter from Osama bin Laden’s deputy to the leader of Iraq’s insurgency that outlines a long-term strategic vision for a global jihad, with the next phase of the war to be taken into Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, according to U.S. officials.

That’s it folks. We cannot cut and run from Iraq. We must win. We must snuff out this human cancer now before it can grow and kill at will.

Sadly, Al Qaeda is trying to clean up its brutal murderous image by playing the liberals and anti-war left as dupes:

But the letter, described by one senior administration official as a “treatise” from Ayman Zawahiri, also warns Abu Musab Zarqawi against alienating the Islamic world, and virtually reprimands the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda for beheading hostages and then distributing videotapes, officials said.

Infortunately, the Michael Moores, Howard Deans, Danny Glovers and George Galloways of the world are easily duped or complicate in the lie.

With the Iraqi vote next week on their new constitution, it is not time to be thinking of a retreat.