Insurgents wanted a Bush Win

Sounds provocative, but Iraqi insurgents wanted Bush to win so that US troops would remain in Iraq.

From the CBC:  Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected: French hostage

PARIS - Iraqi militants wanted President George W. Bush re-elected in November because he would keep U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and that would boost the position of the insurgents, a French reporter says.

We all kind of knew this, or at least surmised that bin Laden had a lot to gain with Bush in the White House, but now confirmation that fighters in Iraq were keen on a Bush victory:

"We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop," one of his captors told him, Malbrunot wrote in the paper Le Figaro on Friday.

So a Bush win was clearly a win for the insurgency.  Or was it?

Talk amongst yourselves...