Why There's a Bush Sticker on his Dialysis Monitor

We say bin Laden likes Bush because in three years, Bush hasn't laid a scratch on bin Laden. Of course, that's my simplistic mind at work. Others look at it a little differently.

Al Qaeda plots to influence US elections?

...In June CIA officer Michael Scheuer, who writes under the pseudonym "Anonymous," told the British newspaper the Guardian that Al Qaeda couldn't have a better administration in place in terms of achieving its goals. Mr. Scheuer believes that the president is "taking the US in exactly the direction Bin Laden wants, towards all-out confrontation with Islam under the banner of spreading democracy."

'I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now,' he said. 'One way to keep the Republicans in power is to mount an attack that would rally the country around the president.'

Asia Times reporter and commentator Pepe Escobar argued earlier this year that Al Qaeda wants President Bush to remain in office because he has become such a lightning rod for many Muslims that his reelection would help the terror group continue to raise funds and new recruits.

Al Qaeda wants the Iraq occupation to be prolonged, with or without a puppet government: there could not be a better advertisement for rallying Muslims against the arrogance of the West. Al Qaeda's and the Bush administration's future are interlocked anyway.

National Public Radio's All Things Considered looked at Al Qaeda's election threat, and reports it's not clear which candidate the group wants to see in the White House. Reporter Mary Louise Kelly interviews National Review columnist Michael Ledeen, who believes that Al Qaeda wants a Kerry presidency. Daniel Byman, columnist for Slate and a senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution, tells Ms. Kelly he thinks Al Qaeda favors a renewed Bush presidency, for similar reasons to those mentioned above.