An Unholy Triangle: George Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and al Qaeda 
The topic below was originally posted on my blog the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as The Peace Tree, the Independent Bloggers Alliance and Worldwide Sawdust.
Foreign Affairs published a sobering article by Bruce Riedel in their May/June issue entitled, "al Qaeda Strikes Back." Riedel, a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution retired last year after 29 years with the CIA.
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Our Enemies' Nicknames
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Cornered. CIA speaks [Dec. 2001]
From Gary Bernsten, who led the CIA's paramilitary unit chasing bin Laden after he fled from Kabul (Christiane Amanpour interviewed him on CNN) –
AMANPOUR: ... the CIA was sure it knew where he was, thanks in large part to a radio taken off a dead al Qaeda fighter.
BERNTSEN: We listened to bin Laden for several days using that radio, listened to his communications among him and his men. We listened to him apologize to them for having led them –
[-- crossposted at dailykos --]
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Bush thinks Seattle-area peace activists are terrorists.
Most of us would think of terrorists as people like Bin Laden whose purpose is to kill innocent civilians at random for political purposes. But not Bush. He thinks that anybody who expresses their First-Amendment right to dissent from the President's policies is a terrorist and must be tracked as much as possible. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer link provides a list of Washington-area peace groups who have been spied on by the Bush administration.
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bin Laden fuels the fear, paves the way for banishing our Civil Liberties
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Prepare for the Inevitable Attack
"Oh!" they'll whine, "See what the 'blame-America-first' crowd is doing. They're coddling the enemy. They're providing loving, nurturing support for the terrorists. It's time they shut their mouths and support our president. There's no room for political dissent in America anymore."
Inevitably, they'll quote bin Laden:
...I plan to speak about the repeated errors your President Bush has committed in comments on the results of your polls that show an overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. But he (Bush) has opposed this wish and said that withdrawing troops sends the wrong message to opponents...
"Doesn't get any clearer than that!"
Already the stream of debris is flowing. Here's a tiny sampling:
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