Consortium News: Giving Osama What He Really Wants

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Giving Osama What He Really Wants
By Robert Parry
October 21, 2006


The Republican National Committee has released a new campaign ad to rally the GOP base and other voters by showing threatening quotes from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden followed by the pitch: “These are the stakes. Vote Nov. 7.”

President George W. Bush has flogged the same theme in lashing Democrats who favor a military withdrawal from Iraq.

“If we were to follow the Democrats’ prescriptions and withdraw from Iraq, we would be fulfilling Osama bin Laden’s highest aspirations,” Bush said at an Oct. 19 campaign speech in La Plume, Pennsylvania. “We should at least be able to agree that the path to victory is not to do precisely what the terrorists want.”

But these appeals from the RNC and Bush ignore U.S. intelligence information indicating that what al-Qaeda really wants is for the United States to remain bogged down in Iraq so the terrorist band can use the American occupation to recruit and train a new generation of jihadists, who can then be deployed against targets outside Iraq.

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1. Republicans Took Away Our Freedoms, When Bin Laden Couldn't

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2. Thanks That says it all

And I am putting that sticker on my car today

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3. Bush and bin Laden want the same things: chaos and repression.

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