Bush loves the terrorists

who in their right mind is still buying george's load of bollocks...? whoever they are, it's almost inconceivable that 35% of the u.s. population is functionally brain-dead...

"If we were to follow the Democrats' prescriptions and withdraw from Iraq, we would be fulfilling Osama bin Laden's highest aspirations," Bush said at an Oct. 19 campaign speech in La Plume, Pennsylvania. "We should at least be able to agree that the path to victory is not to do precisely what the terrorists want."

But these appeals from the RNC and Bush ignore U.S. intelligence information indicating that what al-Qaeda really wants is for the United States to remain bogged down in Iraq so the terrorist band can use the American occupation to recruit and train a new generation of jihadists, who can then be deployed against targets outside Iraq.

yeah, ok, i know it's extremely distasteful to accept the fact that our president and osama bin laden are working to the same end... but, after all the evidence comes to light (and more of it has been coming to light each and every day since 9/11), the fact will be inescapable... i actually feel sorry for those who are going to have to deal with such a sad reality... as ron suskind so delicately put it, there is an "ocean of hard truths" that "remain untouched"...

On Oct. 29, 2004, with Bush in a tough fight for a second term, bin Laden took the extraordinary personal risk to break nearly a year of silence and release a videotape that superficially denounced Bush but was interpreted by CIA analysts as a backdoor way to help Bush win.

"Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President," said deputy CIA director John McLaughlin in opening a meeting to review secret "strategic analysis" after the videotape had dominated the day's news, according to Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine, which draws heavily from CIA insiders.

Suskind wrote that CIA analysts had spent years "parsing each expressed word of the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy, Zawahiri. What they'd learned over nearly a decade is that bin Laden speaks only for strategic reasons. … Today's conclusion: bin Laden's message was clearly designed to assist the President's reelection."

Jami Miscik, CIA deputy associate director for intelligence, expressed the consensus view that bin Laden recognized how Bush's heavy-handed policies -- such as the Guantanamo prison camp, the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal and the war in Iraq -- were serving al-Qaeda's strategic goals for recruiting a new generation of jihadists.

"Certainly," Miscik said, "he would want Bush to keep doing what he's doing for a few more years."

As their internal assessment sank in, the CIA analysts were troubled by the implications of their own conclusions. "An ocean of hard truths before them -- such as what did it say about U.S. policies that bin Laden would want Bush reelected -- remained untouched," Suskind wrote.

besides the cold water bath the 35% is going to have to endure, there are a great many more out there who will have to gag down an equally unpleasant reality - that bush and his minions are far from incompetent, and that their assistance to bin laden has been both deliberate and carefully thought out, to say nothing of also being quite successful...

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