There's spin...

And then there's spin. Check the lead paragraph on this AP piece:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A letter seized from an al-Qaida courier shows Osama bin Laden has made little headway in recruiting Iraqis for a holy war against America, raising questions about the Bush administration's contention that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror.

Unbelievable. If the letter had shown that Osama was picking up converts by the wagonload, the same sentence would undoubtedly have concluded "raising questions about the Bush administration's contention that they have the support of the Iraqi people." Or "validating administration critics who warned the war on Iraq would only raise a new generation of bin Ladens." But when the predicted wave of new recruits fails to materialize, that, too, proves the Bush administration was wrong.