Red Dawn
Senior Member
I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign to deny that Al Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post, is rooting for their man. To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement.
What was absent from the call, oddly enough, was any discussion about why Al Qaeda might want McCain to win. And there the case is simple enough.
Al Qaeda prefers an indefinite U.S. occupation of Iraq and a bellicose U.S. all across the Muslim world to radicalize Muslims to its terrorist cause and drain the U.S. of its financial wealth what Osama bin Laden calls his bleed to bankruptcy strategy. Hence, the reason why, as the CIA eventually concluded, Bin Laden tried to help George W. Bushs reelection in 2004 by releasing a late-October tape. McCain pledges basic continuity with Bush on the Iraq war. As Scheunemann put it, John McCain will spend what it takes to win.
The Washington Independent McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
What was absent from the call, oddly enough, was any discussion about why Al Qaeda might want McCain to win. And there the case is simple enough.
Al Qaeda prefers an indefinite U.S. occupation of Iraq and a bellicose U.S. all across the Muslim world to radicalize Muslims to its terrorist cause and drain the U.S. of its financial wealth what Osama bin Laden calls his bleed to bankruptcy strategy. Hence, the reason why, as the CIA eventually concluded, Bin Laden tried to help George W. Bushs reelection in 2004 by releasing a late-October tape. McCain pledges basic continuity with Bush on the Iraq war. As Scheunemann put it, John McCain will spend what it takes to win.
The Washington Independent McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain