Bin Laden and his followers are furious that we invaded Iraq and they want us to cut and run, just like Buchanan and the rat party.
The head of the CIA's bin Laden desk believes exactly the opposite...he has called the invasion and US presence in Iraq, the Christmas present bin Laden (if he were Christian) could have never hoped for"
The invasion of Iraq was a godsend to Osama bin Laden, very literally, because it validated so much of what he has said and told Muslims: that the Americans want Arab oil; that the Americans will destroy any Muslim regime that appears to be powerful; the Americans will destroy any country that appears to be a threat to the Israelis; and they're willing to invade any Muslim country if it suits their interests.
So the invasion of Iraq just validated everything that he said in the past decade about the United States. And so that's just not a problem for the Europeans; it's a problem for any country that has a population of expatriate Muslims, especially Sunnis, who are young, not fully assimilated.
Iraq has become an agent of transformation for Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is moving from being a man and an organization to being a movement and a heroic symbol of leadership, a philosophy.
That's what Iraq has done. It's increased danger in Europe, but also [in] the United States, Canada and Australia, the Far East -- danger in the sense of not bin Laden command and control, but danger in the sense of Muslims striking back for the invasion of Iraq, which, after all, is the second holiest place in Islam.
-- Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden desk
Actually, Buchanan is opposed to “cutting and running” - I saw him on the Scarborough Country program. Scarborough admitted Buchanan was right to oppose the Iraq War when he supported it, and was surprised that Buchanan wanted to continue there. Buchanan said the U.S. cannot afford to lose now that we are in Iraq.