Not the complete picture; however, right on target.

Al Qaeda is pleased with the sympathy and admiration it receives from the liberal press and liberal news media in this country. If they attack again, it would give us resolve and change our fighting tactics plus the liberal news media would have to label them "The Bad Guys". (Heaven forbid). Why is it the media always shows wounded and dead Palestinians and hardly ever the slain or wounded Jewish People. Those who control the press (and some are Jewish)have turned their back on Israel.

"Al Qaeda is pleased with the sympathy and admiration it receives from the liberal press and liberal news media in this country"

Show it to us. Show us an example of 'admiration' of Al Q in the MSM.
Show us an example of 'sympathy' in the MSM.

Come on all ye trash talking GOP'ers: Show us that you are not just talking point liars. Bring 'em on tough guys. Show this liberal to be wrong.

I'd like to know why this information is being made public. Did anyone think that Al Qaeda might change its tactics now that we know what they are up to. Not too bright in my book.

I don't believe the "liberal media" has any sympathy whatsoever for Al Quaeda, unless you consider Al Quaeda websites to be liberal. The liberal media believes in honest reporting, and has operated as a check against violations of civil liberties ever since the founding of our country.

The conservative media should follow suit; instead, they bask in comfort of "infotainment" which has no factual or substantive basis. They have no idea what investigative reporting even means.

I don't know Dr. Boom-Botz. I'd rather be Israeli than Palestinean for the same reason I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. Sure both sides do bad things to each other, but in the general scheme of things, the Palestineans are really pretty oppressed people. They have no rights; they are like a caged and cornered animal who stikes out because it has nothing left with which to negotiate. I don't think many Israelis would feel cornered or caged. I do not consider myself a sympathizer of either side, but objectively I think Israel isn't really playing on a level playing field. They have US support and mega funds flowing in, they have nukes, they have a territory which all connected. The Palestineans have none of these (except maybe some lipservice support for the 2 nation solution). What would you do to solve the problem? For if you have that solution, the need for Al Qaeda would soon just vanish...wow, there is something worth seeing.

Bush wanted to be a "war" president so bad.......That he is bankrupting the country for his own personal agenda. He needs to be removed from office and arrested for war crimes.

And Bush is just idiot to jump into the sandpit with both feet!

Little old me was saying this from day one, they were interested in destabilizing the middle east and bankrupting the US. I am still amazed at the stupidity of this administration. A child could of seen this. Why the "liberal press" played the drums to war and this administration started a 2nd font for war in the middle east, just goes to show how little we look at history and how wars are won and lost.

Seems to go against the whole Bush administration rationale that we ought to "Fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here."

At the risk of sounding like a left-wing, pinko-commie, liberal, terrorist sympathizing, Saddam loyalist, anti-military, pro-man-on-dog-on-sheep-on-old-dirty-tire, anti-religion, anti-Christmas, pro-ACLU, pro-NYTimes, pro-Bin-Laden, and any other ad-hominem labels used to attacks people like me, Democrat, I must say, it would seem that the strategy that appears to be outline in this Al-Qaeuda manual have worked.

Consider simply, for example, that the latest cost estimates for Afghanistan and Iraq by 2007 put the total at around half a trillion dollars.

Consider this current war has dragged on well past the original estimate of 6 months, that we weren't greeted as liberators, the insurgency wasn't in it's last throes, and there were no flowers and candy to greet the troops when we got there.

Instead they got suicide bombers and IED's. Car-bombs, and police and Iraqi military units infiltrated by terrorists.

Poor armor supplies, and unarmored or low armored Humvees.

Nobody believes the Bush Administration anymore when it comes to terrorism. What they probably found was some "aspirational" plans -- at best. More than likely the whole thing's been blown way out of proportion. In other words, somebody "data mined" it and somebody like al-Qaeda leaves shit like this laying around.

The "Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point"? Give me a break! That's like getting a report from the "School of the Americas" a few years back. No conflicts of interest or orders to follow at West Point, either.

Maddy Sauer -- I don't know what planet you've been to lately. The Bush Administration and GOP control of Congress is in deep poop. The events on the floor of the US House Monday last was the most sickening spectacle I've seen from the Republicans in years. Louie Gohmert trying to swiftboat Jack Murtha with the old "why we'd be speaking German or Japanese today if we had people like Jack Murtha back then." Truth is, there were lots of people like Murtha in the Pacific during WW II. And it was literally over their dead bodies that we're freer today. Murtha would have been no different.

The MSM is CONSERVATIVE. It represents the Megacorps. that own networks like ABC. What's good for their bottom line is good for the country. Period. Conservative propaganda and instilling FEAR in the American people are both good for the Media bottom lines. More people watch the b.s. they shovel out each day. And that's good for the Busheviks. too. People should be "very" scared right now. That's how "liberal" the MSM is.

What's the GOP gonna run on in November? That they've shipped your job overseas or soon will, made sure the burden of taxation has been shifted to the backs of the rapidly shrinking middle class, and that Bush -- The Decider -- can't really decide anything on his own unless he lives in some fantasy world where he only sees people like him -- the "haves and the have-mores." You think I want to vote for someone that's making me less secure because I don't have a job, or health insurance for my kids, or any real security from terrorist attack as long as we're bogged down in Iraq? That veterans returning from Iraq face budget cuts for medical and psychiatric services? Gimme a break!

Media are the biggest lobbies in Washington and they've made out like bandits since Bush took office. You really think they're going to bite the hand that feeds them?

a position I put forth over three years ago published in a small local paper in Dayton Ohio,...that 911 was more bait than the neocons could resist. Any seasoned military professional, just like any seasoned fighter knows how foolish it is to empty your clip at the first sound of fire or chase empty shadows with wasted punches.

We could have avoided the Iraq nightmare if we had simply occupied Aghanistan and heeded Gen Shineski's initial troop requirements and placed them in Afghanistan. Afghanistan would not be re-simmering and a force of that size in close proximity to the oil patch would have been more than sufficient to contend with unwanted intrusions, and the collective sympathy of the world would still be at our backs. While we waited for the ineveitable demise of Saddam's regime the covert operations neccessary to ensure a more orderly transition in his departure could have been carried out.
On considering the conduct, execution, and direction of the foreign policy fiasco it is significant to note that undermanning the occupation forces contributed to the shortfall in Iraqi oil production that has generated such extraordinary profits for the oil.

Robert Novak wrote on December 26, 2002, "that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon "leaves no doubt that the greatest U.S. assistance to Israel would be to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. That view is widely shared inside the Bush administration..."

First - Terrorism is a tactic and not a entity. Saying we can win the "War on Terror" is like saying we can win the "War on Violence" and only targeting gangs while a act of violence can be committed by anyone at any time.

Second - This is nothing but a "Rope-A-Dope" strategy. Al-Qaeda is laying on the ropes the the U.S. are the dopes!

What liberal media ? THE MEDIA IS SO RESTRICTED IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTHAN AS TO WHAT IT CAN REPORT THAT WE AMERICANS DO NOT TRULY SEE THE LARGE PICTURE.No one I know supports Al Qaeda or the taliban or is sympathetic to them. They are America's biggest long term problem next to N. Korea and Iran. What most people have a problem with is Bush and all of his supporters because there is no integrity in this adminstration.This is George W. Bush fault for misleading this nation into Iraq on evidence that was already determined as inauthentic.Yes I like alot of Americans are fed up with Iraq but I don't beleive you can be there forever or just pull out. Nothing is that simple now and after Iraq? where will be fighting next?This is a battle that cannot be won solely on military power,we have to counter their propaganda with truth and integrity.How do you think we lost Vietnam? It was a mindset on both parts, one that recruited young children to fight us because they had no truth and no future.Sound familar look at Iraq,look at Afghanistan.

Even a worst case scenario terrorist attack would kill much less then 1% of Americans. President Bush's tactics infringe on the rights of 100% of Americans. I for one would rather run the risk of dying to some religous nut, rather than abdicating the constitutional rights generations of Americans have fought and died for. Maybe we should build prison barges, where people who want to forgo civil rights for safety can be warehoused.

It's interesting how everyone is assuming that the Bush administration is 'falling for' the Al Queda approach here.

Consider for a moment if the al Queda and Bush agendas are not totally mutually exclusive. What if there are some activities helpful to both of them, but not for the publics involved?

For example, Bush to date has received almost all of his rating improvements when he has had war milestones. WIthout the war, his ratings have plummeted since he took office.

The war has brought huge billions from the trough of the American public into selected private hands, chosen by the administration. It's skyrocketed military spending.

The agenads of Bush and Al Queda can have some overlap.

Remember the recent leak that the CIA determined the release of the bin Laden video in Oct 2004 was for the purpose of helping Bush get re-elected?

There was something implied in Dr. Boom-Botz's comments that is the primary source of this conflict. Israel has a status with our government that is just short of statehood. And this is puzzling to me. What do we get for open ended support for Israel? I don't know. I do know that we get burning hate of the entire muslim world. The time has come and past for the US to revise it's policies toward Israel.

>>they were interested in destabilizing the middle east and bankrupting the US.<<

November 1, 2004

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.

"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said.

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.

"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

"It is true that this shows that al Qaeda has gained, but on the other hand it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something that anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced.

"And it all shows that the real loser is you," he said. "It is the American people and their economy."

The only way to confront cynical, misleading demagogery such as the above posted "liberal media" malarky is to stick to the facts. Like Dracula, right-wing war appologists wither in the light. Here, it is the cold hard light of the truth.

The irony isn't lost on me that Al-Qadea and the Neo-Cons had the same agenda. War abroad. Over-stretch the military. Al-Qadea benefits by the strain (militarily, financially, and psychologically) placed on the United States, and the Neo-Cons benefit by simultaneously weakening the Federal Government and using the war to rabble-rouse, obfuscate and confuse a weary and frightened populous into beliving that the right has their best interests at heart.

In actual fact, they have no heart, and nothing could be further from the truth. Like Al-Qadea, they are demonstrating a callous indifference toward human life.