UPDATE BELOW

While Barack Obama snagged Colin Powell’s endorsement on Sunday, Jackboot John McCain has received thumbs up support from Osama and his boys.

According to the today’s Washington Post, al-Qaeda has claimed the best man for the White House is the angry former POW:

• “Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group.
  It said the Arizona Republican would continue the “failing march of his predecessor,” President Bush.
  …
  In language that was by turns mocking and ominous, the newest posting credited al-Qaeda with having lured Washington into a trap that had “exhausted its resources and bankrupted its economy.” It further suggested that a terrorist strike might swing the election to McCain and guarantee an expansion of U.S. military commitments in the Islamic world.

Al-Qaeda is joy-filled right now because of the US financial shitfire that’s globe-trotting its toxic wastes and the West just might be on its knees any day now.
War is a good sucker device.
What would one say about the Iraq War: Two Billion Dollars a week to maintain and one has to wonder what impact this horrifying amount of loose change has on the US economy.

Adam Raisman, a senior analyst for Site Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamic Web pages provided translations of the comments to the Post.

• “The idea in the jihadist forums is that McCain would be a faithful ‘son of Bush’ — someone they see as a jingoist and a war hawk,” Raisman said. “They think that, to succeed in a war of attrition, they need a leader in Washington like McCain.”

Although there was blubbering and bluster from the McCain camp, Osama and his boys have indeed worked a nail-screw on the US, and in a domino-like effect, have twisted it on the world.
After 9/11, Decider George and his neocon war party played into al-Qaeda’s hand, sort of like Custer being led down into the valley of the Big Horn, albeit in a more haphazard way.

The operative question, however, is this: How the hell did Osama know Decider George would be such an incompetent, lying dick?

(Osama’s pix found here; Jackboot John’s here).
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YESTERDAY, this angle on the McCain/Osama connection at War in Context.

Interesting…