Why Bush could be a fan of terrorism

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By Peter Preston
THE OBSERVER , London
Monday, Aug 16, 2004,Page 9

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The fattest factor in America's election year hasn't flamed yet, or even singed. But another hot week of orange alerts, white knuckles and scarlet blushes begins to pose the inevitable awful problem. Who exactly will Osama bin Laden be voting for this November? Is he (whisper it) a closet Republican?

Take almost any current terror scenario and put it to public opinion. Suppose that the Sept. 11 commission is right: suppose that the obvious risk of another al-Qaeda attack turns to bloody reality sometime over the next four months.

Who gains? Why, the sitting president, the commander in chief. President George W. Bush declared this "war" and sent his country into battle. It would not desert him if crisis suddenly returned.

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