Posted on 10/26/2004 10:11:11 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S. insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and the Americans will go home.
"If the U.S. Army suffered numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of the American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical group that vocally supports the resistance.
Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting violence had already hurt Mr. Bush's chances.
"American elections and Iraq are linked tightly together," he told a Fallujah-based Iraqi reporter. "We've got to work to change the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud."
Mowafaq Al-Tai, a London-educated architect and intellectual, said different types of resistance fighters have different views of the U.S. election.
The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists — Ba'ath Party members and others who think Washington might scale back its ambitions for Iraq if Mr. Kerry wins, allowing them to re-enter civic life.
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must be those foreig leaders Kerry was talking about.
I believe President Bush is banking on a strategy that is more or less the reciprocal of this.
(steely)
Is it just me, or does it sound like these guys are afraid of our President.
Well... Kerry and MSM have given the terrorists the signal to start massive bombings.
~ "The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and the Americans will go home." ~
Not how it works there, Abdul. The greater the violence, the more we open up our fields of fire, and the more likely you and your bretheren have a chance to die for Allah.
I think they're afraid also of our President!
I'm so pissed off I can't even spell!!
"Hope" being the key word here. Skerry has the same "hope".
Its ok.
These bad guys make people think about Bush instead of Kerry/healthcare. Nobody believes terrorists are scared of Kerry.
Pop open a beer. Breath easy. Trust God. This lesson from God we are living through is about keeping faith in tough times.
Six days and counting.......
The major newspapers pull $hit like this and call it news. These are the enemy within and they are really pushing their luck. I get so tired of all the crap we get fed by the media whores. This makes me feel like I need to bash something but I'm not sure what.
No kidding. This entire "story" is nothing but opinions from a few select academia individuals.
The Michael Moore view of American service families.
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