Remember, the CIA says that Bin Laden wanted Bush to win in '04

[oxbow]

The next time someone spouts the "Al Qaeda supports Democrats" talking point, you ask them why our best intelligence says otherwise:

www.consortiumnews.com/2006/070306.html

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. Suskind wrote that the CIA analysts based their troubling assessment on classified information, but the analysts still puzzled over exactly why bin-Laden wanted Bush to stay in office.

According to Suskind’s book, 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. …

“Their assessments, at day’s end, are a distillate of the kind of secret, internal conversations that the American public not sanctioned to hear: strategic analysis. Today’s conclusion: bin-Laden’s message was clearly designed to assist the President’s reelection.

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[MrModerate]

1. Why would bin Laden ever want to fire . . .

His best recruiter?

[DireStrike]

2. Oh really?

...lol...

DUH.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. If Bin Laden was still really alive

at that time, sure he wanted Bush to win...cuz he knew that his old pal would never hurt him. OBL is being protected, and he will never be captured. Bush NEEDS OBL. Gotta keep Terra alive!

[oxbow]

4. Yes, warmongers on both side benefit from keeping the flames hot

Where would Batman be without his joker?

[zero_blue]

5. bin laden denied he had anything to do with 9/11 on 9/16

on al-jazeera. did the MSM ever say anything about that?

why would he refuse to take credit for it then and then confess years later when it was politically convenient for *?

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. He's been on dialysis for how long? I'll be astonished if he's alive.