Suskind: CIA knew “Osama backed Bush re-election”
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(Cross posted at Daily Kos)
From Ron Suskind’s book, The One-Percent Doctrine:
What the CIA had learned over nearly a decade is that bin Laden speaks only for strategic reasons — and those reasons are debated with often startling depths inside the organization’s leadership…Today’s conclusion [on the Friday before the 2004 election]: bin Laden’s message was clearly designed to assist the President’s election.
You can view the video of Suskind’s interview on Blitzer’s show. There’s lots of other good stuff in it.
Now Suskind’s book has generated a lot of buzz, most of which centered around the tale of the aborted attempt to gas the NYC subways in 2003.
But this revelation has received next to no notice, even at Daily Kos. Granted, a lot of us have have long since intuited what Suskind is only now writing about. But still…
Let’s be blunt: Osama has always known that George W. Bush is good for business.
Think about it: during the Bush years, the world army of terrorists has grown enormously. Not only that — they are significantly more inspired to commit mayhem against the US and her allies.
But perhaps most frighteningly is this realization: if your goal is destroy what the US stands for, you have no greater ally than this President.
After all, Bush has wrecked the one thing that is the very foundation of our success: the US Constitution.
Without it, we are nothing. And Osama knows that.
