Beryllium Sphere(tm)'s Journal: Which candidate would the terrorists want to win?

al Qaueda's number 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, gave thanks to God in the fall of 2003 for Bush's policies:
"We thank God for appeasing us with the dilemma in Iraq after Afghanistan...If they withdraw they will lose everything and if they stay, they will continue to bleed to death."
-From an audiotape sent to al-Jazeerah 9-10-2003, quoted in CIA agent Michael Scheuer's book

From Scheuer himself, a longtime expert on the forces of evil:
"There is nothing bin Laden could have hoped for more than the American invasion and occupation of Iraq."

One of the Saudi "jihadi" groups, quoted in the Economist on June 3 2004:
"A communiqué from a Saudi jihadi group expresses the hope that George Bush will be re-elected because his 'haste to use force, his lack of wisdom and religious fanaticism have roused the Islamic nation'."