I've said it before and I'll say it again, sometimes the BEST darn pro-America / pro-Democracy / pro-West propaganda comes out of the mouths of our sworn enemies -
An Internet recording claiming to be from wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi condemned democracy as "the big American lie" on Sunday and said participants in Iraq's January 30 election are enemies of Islam.
..."We have declared a bitter war against democracy and all those who seek to enact it," said the speaker in the 35-minute message.
"Democracy is also based on the right to choose your religion," he said, and that is "against the rule of God."
Al-Jazeera et. al are probably unlikely to showcase monopoly religion Zarqawi believes in. But, it's probably safe to say it would be similar to the stuff that Al Sadr did from the other side -
What noticeably was missing were accounts of the atrocities committed by the Mehdi Militia -- Muqtada Al Sadr's band of henchmen. While the media was busy bashing the Coalition, Muqtada's boys were kidnapping policemen, city council members and anyone else accused of supporting the Coalition or the new government, trying them in a kangaroo court based on Islamic Shari'a law, then brutally torturing and executing them for their "crimes." What the media didn't show or write about were the two hundred-plus headless bodies found in the main mosque there, or the body that was put into a bread oven and baked.
I personally can't wait to see how many "enemies of Islam" show up at the polls. Zarqawi has made a bit of a propaganda error here and set himself up for a situation where his "opponents" can individually slap him in the face simply by dropping a ballot.