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Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following…

— Michael Scheuer

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes.…

— Peter Bergen

“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify…

— Carol Tavris

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us,…

— Michael Scheuer

I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his…

— Bob Hawke

How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring…

— John le Carre

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

— Noam Chomsky

I've said this before and I'm very proud of it, that when it comes to judgment, having run a hard race against Senator [Barack]…

— Hillary Clinton

The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President…

— Rick Santorum

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

— Samantha Power

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But…

— Dick Cheney

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war…

— Nancy Pelosi