Monday, August 02, 2004

Which candidate does al-Qaeda want to win in November?

... a man claiming to be Mr. bin Laden went even further in a tape-recorded statement released April 29, saying that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks devastated the American economy and the United States government's budget. For the first time, it appeared, Mr. bin Laden estimated the economic impact by citing specific statistics.

"After the strike of the New York blessed days, thanks to God, their losses exceed a trillion dollars," the recording said in assessing the overall damage to the American economy. "Their budgets have been in deficits for the third year in a row."


--New York Times

The answer is obvious: Their guy is Bush.

(UPDATE: Apologies for the unwitting echo of Matt Yglesias.)

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