Hastert's latest inanity, that al-Qaeda wants Kerry to win, shows at least two things: You can't take the high school gym teacher out of this particular House Speaker, and the GOP wants to test the limits of what the whore media will let them get away with, no matter how transparently silly.
But if the Democrats can't swat this one out of the park, they don't deserve to win. It's almost too easy.
Why al Qaeda wants Bush to win:
- Two words: Tora Bora.
- BushCo's political override of any reasonable military plan to destroy the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan was bungling incompetence of monumental proportions, and guaranteed the Taliban's capacity to regroup in everywhere but Kabul.
- BushCo's focus on Iraq from 9/11 onwards diverted attention and resources away from destroying al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
- BushCo's focus on Iraq from 9/11 onwards allowed al-Qaeda to flourish by regrouping and redefining itself into a far more decentralized and hard-to-destroy organization, making us less safe than before 9/11.
- BushCo's failure to have any rational plan for post-invasion Iraq allowed terrorist organizations of all stripes to flourish in Iraq, making our troops there less safe.
- BushCo's failure to have a rational plan for stability in post-invasion Iraq has made the Bush Iraq "policy" into the greatest recruiting tool al Qaeda could have hoped for.
- BushCo's anti-Islamic, Christian crusader tone (led by Boykin, who has not been disciplined or rebuked in any significant way for his "my God is bigger" remarks) has led to today's situation, where Bush is al-Qaeda's best recruiting tool throughout the Islamic world.
- After 3 years of failure, Bush owns the al-Qaeda problem.
You can fill out the rest of the top ten.
Kerry-Edwards, time to take up this chant TODAY:
George Bush is al-Qaeda's dream opponent and their best recruiting tool. Of course they want him to stay in office.