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CIA concluded Bin Laden sought to help Bush win in 2004
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Wiskedjak
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Jul 4, 2006, 11:04 PM
 
This is something many of those who do not support Bush have said many times; that Bin Laden actually prefers to have Bush in power. According to Ron Suskind, apparently from CIA insiders, the CIA agrees:

CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04
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 ...

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

“At the five o’clock meeting, [deputy CIA director] John McLaughlin opened the issue with the consensus view: ‘Bin-Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President.’”

McLaughlin’s comment drew nods from CIA officers at the table. Jami Miscik, CIA deputy associate director for intelligence, suggested that the al-Qaeda founder may have come to Bush’s aid because bin-Laden felt threatened by the rise in Iraq of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; bin-Laden might have thought his leadership would be diminished if Bush lost the White House and their “eye-to-eye struggle” ended.

But the CIA analysts also felt that bin-Laden might have recognized how Bush’s policies – including the Guantanamo prison camp, the Abu Ghraib scandal and the endless bloodshed in Iraq – were serving al-Qaeda’s strategic goals for recruiting a new generation of jihadists.
     
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Jul 5, 2006, 02:11 PM
 
Sure...OK. Whatever you say there, champ.
     
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Jul 5, 2006, 02:45 PM
 
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Jul 5, 2006, 02:50 PM
 
How in the world did you miss this?

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=300740

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Jul 6, 2006, 01:07 AM
 
Originally Posted by Landos Mustache
How in the world did you miss this?

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=300740
Well, for starters, your title is very misleading ...
     
   
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