This appeared in the New York Times yesterday—not in the Onion:

Ramadi, Iraq
"Sunni merchants watched warily from behind neat stacks of vegetables as Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno walked with a platoon of bodyguards through the Qatana bazaar here one recent afternoon. At last, one leathery-faced trader glanced furtively up and down the narrow, refuse-strewn street to check out who might be listening, then broke the silence.

"'America good! Al Qaeda bad!' he said in halting English, flashing a thumb's-up in the direction of American's second -ranking commander in Iraq."

Now watch this video, reportedly from Osama bin Laden, "How the War Can Be Stopped," at www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SXwdceAeI.