Let's Train Al-Qaeda There So We Don't Have to Train Them Here

Terrorists are using US troops for target practice, but why--even after documents recovered from Al Qaeda show they WANT BUSH TO "STAY THE COURSE"--does the administration continue to do just that, give Bin Laden exactly what he wants?

Desperate GOP Stoops to Lowest Fear Politics Imaginable: "The Republican National Committee has released a new campaign ad to rally the GOP base and other voters by showing threatening quotes from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden followed by the pitch: 'These are the stakes. Vote Nov. 7.' (Watch the ad here)

President George W. Bush has flogged the same theme in lashing Democrats who favor a military withdrawal from Iraq.

'If we were to follow the Democrats' prescriptions and withdraw from Iraq, we would be fulfilling Osama bin Laden's highest aspirations,' Bush said at an Oct. 19 campaign speech in La Plume, Pennsylvania. 'We should at least be able to agree that the path to victory is not to do precisely what the terrorists want.'

But these appeals from the RNC and Bush ignore U.S. intelligence information indicating that what al-Qaeda really wants is for the United States to remain bogged down in Iraq so the terrorist band can use the American occupation to recruit and train a new generation of jihadists, who can then be deployed against targets outside Iraq.

In effect, Bush and bin Laden share a common goal in Iraq. They both want U.S. forces to 'stay the course.'"

Is there an alternative goal? One which is more valuable than the death of American troops (effectively adding lives to the 9/11 toll daily)? Does it involve neoconservative PNAC goals that require at least one "win" in the Middle East to realize?