Osama is George's best friend

no doubt about it... it's what you might call a "marriage of convenience..."

(robert parry in consortium news...)

On Oct. 29, 2004, just four days before the U.S. presidential election, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden released a videotape denouncing George W. Bush. Some Bush supporters quickly spun the diatribe as “Osama’s endorsement of John Kerry.” But behind the walls of the CIA, analysts had concluded the opposite: that bin-Laden was trying to help Bush gain a second term.

This stunning CIA disclosure is tucked away in a brief passage near the end of Ron Suskind’s The One Percent Doctrine, which draws heavily from CIA insiders.

the strategy was brilliant...

By demanding an American surrender, bin-Laden knew U.S. voters would instinctively want to fight. That way bin-Laden helped ensure that George W. Bush would stay in power, would continue his clumsy “war on terror” – and would drive thousands of new recruits into al-Qaeda’s welcoming arms.

and it's been successful beyond both men's wildest dreams... bush has his endless war on terror and osama has jihadists falling all over themselves to enlist in the cause... in light of the previous post about al qaeda turning in zarqawi in return for lessening the pressure on bin laden, it makes a certain kind of twisted sense, doesn't it...?

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