Thank You, Mr. President

"America is safer than it has been, yet it is not yet safe." - President McLiesalot August 2006

Today, the NYT reports that we are fighting them over there so al Qaeda can regroup and fight us over here. So, I'm thinking it's time to drop the "safer" part as well.

Update: Meanwhile, the wingnuts in the audience don't blame Bush for his lack of Osama resolve.

The stupider, more reactionary types among the nutroots will try to blame this on Chimpy’s Iraq gambit, but one has nothing to do with the other.

I guess I am stupid and reactionary because I seem to think pulling our best resources from Afghanistan, when hot on the trail of Osama and company, to focus on Iraq has everything to do with this al Qaeda resurgence today. But wait, I'm not alone:

On the videotape obtained by the CIA, bin Laden is seen confidently instructing his party how to dig holes in the ground to lie in undetected at night. A bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft can be seen exploding in the distance. "We were there last night," bin Laden says without much concern in his voice. He was in or headed toward Pakistan, counterterrorism officials think.

That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.

"I was appalled when I learned about it," said Leverett, who has become an outspoken critic of the administration's counterterrorism policy. "I don't know of anyone who thought it was a good idea. It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that."

But again, to blame Bush is to be stupid and reactionary. Will they ever admit their president is a complete and utter failure?