All the republicans have been trumpeting the forthrightness and resolve of their "wartime preznit". Truly, he's nothing but a little dick, no apologies to Cheney either. He's gone from cowboy macho “Osama”:Dead or Alive" to Osama bin Forgotten. Now, ripped from the front pages of the Post is a Kerry campaign commercial waiting to happen:

In the second half of March 2002, as the Bush administration mapped its next steps against al Qaeda, Deputy CIA Director John E. McLaughlin brought an unexpected message to the White House Situation Room. According to two people with firsthand knowledge, he told senior members of the president's national security team that the CIA was scaling back operations in Afghanistan.

That announcement marked a year-long drawdown of specialized military and intelligence resources from the geographic center of combat with Osama bin Laden. As jihadist enemies reorganized, slipping back and forth from Pakistan and Iran, the CIA closed forward bases in the cities of Herat, Mazar-e Sharif and Kandahar. The agency put off an $80 million plan to train and equip a friendly intelligence service for the new U.S.-installed Afghan government. Replacements did not keep pace with departures as case officers finished six-week tours. And Task Force 5 -- a covert commando team that led the hunt for bin Laden and his lieutenants in the border region -- lost more than two-thirds of its fighting strength.

The commandos, their high-tech surveillance equipment and other assets would instead surge toward Iraq through 2002 and early 2003...
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But at least a dozen current and former officials who have held key positions in conducting the war now say they see diminishing returns in Bush's decapitation strategy. Current and former leaders of that effort, three of whom departed in frustration from the top White House terrorism post, said the manhunt is important but cannot defeat the threat of jihadist terrorism. Classified government tallies, moreover, suggest that Bush and Vice President Cheney have inflated the manhunt's success in their reelection bid.

Perhaps it wasn't a brain-fart on the part of Preznit Heavenly Speed-dial, that he made the Osama Gaffe in the debate. He was so obessed with wreaking vengence on behalf of daddy to get mommy's approval, that he started a war with not just an imaginary enemy, but one who had been a reliable republican bidness partner for decades. Oil? No, it was never about oil for Preznit Pubescent Pinhead, it was about revenge and mommy's approval. On November 3rd, perhaps we'll start to get our country back, and out of the hands of the worlds oldest pre-adolescent brain-damaged teenager.