1. They were rooting for the Democrats to win and that will make it more likely we'll cut and run. Now they'll step up the attacks to speed up the process.
2. At the request of speaker-to-be Pelosi, Bush just threw Rumsfeld under the bus.
That's my point, terrorists root for no one. We're all infidels. They have no plan, no strategy other than kill people and break things (literally, not as Rush used the phrase). They are simply incompatable with the western world, and the sooner we get used to the idea the better.