Here's some reading I think you'll find very interesting (look for the link POST-SADDAM IRAQ: THE WAR GAME):

http://www.nsarchive.org

>>I guess it's no surprise:
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>>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52747
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>No surprise that WorldNutDaily runs this stuff or some other surprise? According to Ron Suskind’s book, The One Percent Doctrine, he has it going the other way.
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>“Their [the CIA’s] assessments, at day’s end, are a distillate of the kind of secret, internal conversations that the American public [was] not sanctioned to hear: strategic analysis. Today’s conclusion: bin-Laden’s message was clearly designed to assist the President’s reelection.
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>“At the five o’clock meeting, [deputy CIA director] John McLaughlin opened the issue with the consensus view: ‘Bin-Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President.’”
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>But the CIA analysts also felt that bin-Laden might have recognized how Bush’s policies – including the Guantanamo prison camp, the Abu Ghraib scandal and the endless bloodshed in Iraq – were serving al-Qaeda’s strategic goals for recruiting a new generation of jihadists
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>http://consortiumnews.com/2006/070306.html