Remember back in the 2004 election, when the GOP talking point was that bin Laden was rooting for a Democrat to win?  It was repeated over and over again, and parroted by the media.

Of course, that was just a talking point.  The truth is, Bush has been berry berry good to bin Laden.  Al Qaeda, once a fringe radical group, is now the cause celebre of every Islamic malcontent.  Iraq, for example, has done little to decrase the ranks of al Qaeda and much to increase its ranks throughout the world and the Middle East.

But what we didn’t know back in 2004, we know now: The U.S. intelligence community believed that bin Laden wanted a Bush victory.  Read more here.