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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 11:16 AM
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Guardian UK: Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1242638,00.html
Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands

Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says
Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday June 19, 2004

The Guardian
A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands.

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, due out next month, dismisses two of the most frequent boasts of the Bush administration: that Bin Laden and al-Qaida are "on the run" and that the Iraq invasion has made America safer.

In an interview with the Guardian the official, who writes as "Anonymous", described al-Qaida as a much more proficient and focused organisation than it was in 2001, and predicted that it would "inevitably" acquire weapons of mass destruction and try to use them.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 11:18 AM
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1. This story is scary as hell
it should be shouted from the rooftops

Osama WANTS Bush to win and will try to attack us to HELP Bush.

PLEASE pass this far and wide!
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 11:18 AM
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2. Osama rewards him with a "strike"
His Saudi friends reward him with a drop in gas prices.

But somehow, the worse the war on terror goes, the more Cheney gets paid . . . hmmmmm



http://www.wgoeshome.com
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lovedems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 11:22 AM
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3. This is the kind of argument that is accurate
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"I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now," he said.

"One way to keep the Republicans in power is to mount an attack that would rally the country around the president."
end

Now let's hear how terrorists want a Kerry administration?
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oostevo Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:04 PM
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4. He's still working???
That kind of reflects the frustration that currently-serving intelligence officials are experiencing with this administration.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 12:21 PM
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5. The time is now to preempt Bush's grotesque hopes of this
Any further attacks by al Qaida, as well as the beheading of Mr. Johnson in Riyadh yesterday, the attack on Madrid in March and the attacks in Istanbul last November, serve to show that Bush's war on terrorism is a failure and that he should be removed from office as soon as possible.

There were neither weapons of mass destruction in Iraq nor ties to al Qaida. They had to know this. The war was simple colonial piracy and the aggrandizement of a tyrant, a neurotic coward who wanted to thump his chest and call himself a "war president".

Bush's efforts in Iraq have been dishonest. In terms of fighting terrorism, they are ineffective. Invading Iraq was a waste of human lives, time of money. It did nothing to make Americans safer from the likes of Osama.

Any further attacks by al Qaida -- indeed, the very fact that al Qaida has regrouped since Bush invaded Iraq -- are not reasons to rally around a failed leader but reasons to seek one who will be more effective.
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