PA Governor Rendell: OBL wants his top al Qaeda recruiter (Bush*) to win

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-21/109924315017710.xml&storylist=penn

PHILADELPHIA — A new videotape message from terror mastermind Osama bin Laden was meant to help President Bush win re-election, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Sunday. "It's obvious to me that bin Laden is trying to help George Bush, because George Bush is the best recruiter that al-Qaida has," Rendell told "Fox News Sunday."

[ET Awful]

1. Nicely said Governor! n/t

[bluedeminredstate]

2. Take that Tommy Thompson!

Of course Rendell's comment will be dissected by the press while Bush and his surrogates continue to imply that OBL is practically on Kerry's ticket!

[Nicholas_J]

3. There are many good reasons for thinking that.

First of all, with Bush in office, Al Qaeda has an America isolated from from the larger European nations who could assist in financing the war on Terrorism and Iraq. Such isolation also leads to other nations being less forthcoming with intelligence they may have on terrorism. Not that they will not co-operate, but co-operations may be slower in coming, giving Bin Laden extra time to pull off anytihng he wants to pull off.

Second, Bush's pre-occupation with Iraq means less pre-occupation with Al Qaeda. It would be harder for Al Qaeda to fight off the kind of operations we have running in Iraq thatn the tiny contingency of military and intelligence people we now have dealing with Al Qaeda. A Bush who is fighting "terrorism" in Iraq, and fighting it in Iraq with far greater intensity than a Kerry who would be working to get other nations to provide troops in Iraq or troops in a mission to hunt down Al Qada and Bin Laden wqould be far better for Bin Laden.
In one breath we hear that our troops are stretched too thin, and in the next we hear Bush talking how we can handle both Iraq and the war on terrorism. Its not true, but Bush and PNAC;s foreign policy is far better for Al Qaeda's plans than Kerry's ideas about foreign policy.

Bin Laden has handled the concept of divide et impere masterfully. He would be making a fool out of the President of the United States if the job had not already been taken.