If this book was written by a serving officer of an intelligence agency they should certainly be fired, probably be prosecuted and definitely be ignored. I do not know any professional in that capacity who would engage in this sort of behaviour.

Hmmm.... This reminds me of that October Surprise theory that the Ayatollah Khomenei was behind the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Either you aren't very intelligent and completely missed the point of his book, or you, most likely, choose not to give any consideration to any idea that is not consistant with your own. First of all, I'm sure you did not read this book that you ignorantly bash. Open your eyes and look unbiased at every piece of information that comes to you. Why would al-Qaida want Bush in power? Well, al-Qaida thrives with the hatred of America - and who has made the world hate Americans more than GW Bush? With Bush continuing his blind, egocentric, 'kill everyone in front of me' attitude, it will be a very short time before terror attacks on the US become as frequent an occurrence as they are in the middle east. Never before has a President been so inept in his foreign policy.

Uh, "voice of reason," if Bush wanted to "kill everyone in front of me" he's doing an awfully poor job of it. The rest of your "post" is equally nonsensical.

Voice of Reason, please explain the 1993 attack on the WTC in NYC, the 1995 assassination in Pakistan, numerous assassinations and bombings in Israel, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombing in Saudi Arabia, the 1998 US embassy in Kenya and the 2000 bombing of the uss Cole in Yemen when President Clinton was so beloved around the world?

I believe 'Voices' such as yours have made the world hate America today, your hatred has helped to feed the decades long America-hating Al Qaida, not President Bush.

I live in NYC and hear blind, egocentric voices calling for the 'extermination of Republicans'.

Has it ever occurred to you that this type of hatred fuels Al Qaida hatred?

I have opened my eyes and I see that you and Al Qaida are one in the same.

Keep repeating the mantra "the world hates the US" because of Bush.....riiiight.

Certainly everyone loved us when Clinton was president.....and what was it he did to make people love us? Bomb Kosovo? Bomb Sudan aspirin factories? Lob the odd Tomahawk into Afghanistan or Iraq? Let Rwandans die in droves?

I guess the French don't simply envy us, our power and wealth...naaahhh.

Hey, "Voice of Reason" enlighten us idiots. When, exactly, has "the world" ever loved the most powerful, successful and wealthy free country?

It's appeasement that is destroying us, not a warlike attitude, which we need more of.

I agree with the sentence I just wrote, but if I sounded like a lockstep Bush-supporting macho warblogger, and if you want me to be, well... ...there's a bit more to me than that, and you're not going to like my comment coming up in the thread just below. I'm not a Leftist -- the Left turns me further to the Right with each passing day, I'm to the Right of Joseph de Maistre it seems, certainly as Far Right as E. Merrill Root and Alain de Benoist -- but the Right more and more persuades me that I need at least a 2- or 3-dimensional spectrum.

And, guess who called me last night? Jeanine Ring!!!!

VOR is wrong...no surprise there.

Al Queda thrives not on anti-Americanism, it thrives on American weakness (Clinton, et al, all talk - no action).

Voice of tReason describes President Bush as having a "'kill everyone in front of me' attitude." I checked Drudge and could find no reports of the nuke strikes on Teheran and Damascus. But you know that left-wing media, not reporting the true facts on the War on Terror. So who knows? Maybe Bush did turn the sands Syria and Persia into fields of irradiated glass.

Euro-Canada has decided that it minimizes its likelihood of being hit by a MAJOR terror strike by striking the following pose:
1. Cuddling up to the Islamo-fascists by maintaining trade and propaganda relations.
2. Verbally attacking U.S. multi-lateral unilateralism and blaming us (and President Bush) for the terror problem because we allegedly "riled up" the Islamo-fascists (by defending ourselves, I presume).
3. Hiding behind the U.S. security umbrella.
Oh yeah ... and
4. Blame the Jews.

Euro-Canada would collectively poop its collective panties if the U.S. were to seriously consider withdrawing the security umbrella over Europe. Then the Euro-trash would really hate us. Not for long, of course, as they would cease to exist after awhile, given they are weaklings that can't defend themselves (e.g., the French can't use their nukes to defeat the Islam population bomb ticking away inside the Fifth Republic).

Back to the original point of the thread: the "Anonymous" author looks like a Kerry campaign operative trying to the pre-emptively defuse the "rally round the flag" effect of pre-election terror strike.

Pre-emption? Did some say "pre-emption"? Don't those Kerry folks know that pre-emptive action is ALWAYS a bad thing?

preemption would've been pretty nice if it could have preempted 9/11

preemption may be exactly what we did if Saddam truly was planning attacks on us soil,

and if we have fallible intel regarding WMD, preemption is the ONLY reasonable policy.

I have real trouble believing these "reverse psychology" theories. Even for domestic politicians these explanations can sound a little strained. But for barbaric foreign terrorists who have little if any understanding of American domestic politics or psychology it seems outright absurd.

As a general rule, these guys mean exactly what they say. When they say they want to kill jews, they want to kill jews. When they say they want to overthrow western civilization and creat a new Islamic world order, that's what they want. And when they say they want to defeat George Bush, they want to defeat George Bush.

These guys go by the strong horse/weak horse theory of international relations. They carry out terrorist attacks to make themselves seem strong and the enemy weak. That was what the 9/11 attacks were about. Of course they did not and do not understand American psychology and so it didn't get the result they desired. Do you think al Qaeda wanted their main sanctuary in Afganistan to be denied them?

This "Anonymous" is either ignorant, stupid, or both. He mentions that the war in Iraq was for "economic gain". Riiiiiiiiight. The war has cost 166 Billion dollars so far. It would have been far cheaper to dump the no-fly zone, the sanctions and then go buy oil from Saddam (as well as the Iranians). Whatever the war is about, it isn't 'economic gain'.

The Left is dominated by Left-over Marxism. That is why it is shallow and weak.

Sounds like a load of horses&*t aimed straight for the looney left audience.

I can't think of a more cynical enterprise imaginable.

C'mon Susan!

I agreed with everything you wrote until the last sentence when you called VoR one and the same with al-Qaeda.

Ye Gods! There always have been and always will be wrong-headed people - that doesn't make them terrorists or even terrorist sympathizers. This is a time of heated partisan rivalry. But no matter how bitter the disagreement, calling your ideological opponents al-Qaeda supporters is the rhetorical equivalent of calling Bush Hitler - it's idiotic and wrong.

You were correct to point out that VoR's logic was laughable in claiming that al-Qaeda thrives under the Bush administration because of animosity directed solely against Republicans and not the rest of America.

Perhaps you see a connection between the partisan attacks on Bush at home (part of the natural political process) and the terrorist memes that borrow ideas and material from them. (Hezbollah certainly watches and reads Michael Moore). Perhaps you feel that in a time of war, partisan sniping should be more discrete and careful.

But despite your outrage, comparing American lefties to al-Qaeda is just wrong. Silly arguments are easily defeated. There's no need to launch a rhetorical nuclear attack. You ruin your whole with s&%t like that.

Eric Blair -- Anonymous is neither stupid, ignorant, or nuts. This book, in his words, is for "economic gain." There's an audience of wackadoos ready to snap up anything which confirms the BushitlerMoron view of the WoT.

It's all about the benjamins.

Well John In Tokyo,

Calling for the 'extermination of Republicans' sounds to me like Jihadists calling for the 'extermination of infidels'.

This type of rhetoric goes beyond partisan sniping. Neither are willing to show any form of tolerance towards those with whom they disagree.

When the RNC is held in NYC we will see if these types of partisan attacks are truly part of the natural political process.

I hope I am wrong.

Bush's critics have spun so much they're meeting themselves going the other way.

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I like your comment, it's a keeper.

you people are funny. Wrong, and funny. Bush has made the world hate us more than any president in current history. If you don't believe this, take a trip to any country outside the US. Hell, like England, one of our strongest allies. Yeah, they f-cking hate us with a passion and half of them think we deserved 9/11. Imagine out enemies. And the thought that you can 'win' the war on terror by pissing off more people is laughable - and that is basically what you are saying. You people assuage yourselves by taking the most extreme liberal views and applying them to anyone who is not stick-up-the-ass bigotted republican. Obviously only you people post on here, so keep making your arbitrary nonsensical 'points', because you know only your friends are here to Agree with your rhetoric. Have fun with your sad, close-minded lives.

Voice of reason is the only one of you fuckos who is worthhis weight in shit. The rest of you should try a little thing called RESEARCH before you make asses of yourselves world wide. Secondly, only people who's ideologies have blinded them so completley would call leftists marxists. All you fucking neo-cons call people communists when you've got no facts to go off of.

The Left hates America because America has been on the rise while the Left has been on the decline worldwide. I do not fear the Left. The Left can never take over America, it can only weaken us even as it weakens itself all the more. The Left is the party of entropy. The question, then, is only: Which kind of Right will rule?

I don't know who al-Qaida would prefer to have as president of the USA government and I don't care. I'll make up my own mind who I think is best for the country.