The liberals believe this:
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
President Bush is their enemy. Hence, an enemy of President Bush is their friend. Hence, Al Qaida is their friend.
Of course, they would probably apply the same logic to any enemy of the United States, in general, too. ANY enemy of the United States is their friend.
I think it's worse than that. Some of the people I work with are, in general, very smart, very nice people, except when it comes to their politics, and in that they are absolutely enraged at Bush. Their hatred of him and all he stands for is so complete, they will say, do, and profess anything if it has a chance of getting Bush out of power. They shed any resmblance of intellectual honesty in how they view the war, Al-Qaida, 9-11, the military, economics, chads, outsourcing, etc. Each and every problem seems to pale in comparison to the hatred they feel for Bush. I believe that would be willing to sacrifice a major portion of the population of the world if it unseats Bush, and feel totally justified in their doing so! The sad thing is it's only going to get worse when Bush gets reelected!