I'm so tired of seeing Bush lie every time he opens his mouth. He's now criticizing Kerry for talking about Tora Bora. Thanks to Atrios for getting me thinking about this. He pointed out this front page article from the Washington Post from April 17, 2002:
The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.Why is Kerry talking about Tora Bora George? Well, if you bothered to read a newspaper you might have learned that YOUR OWN ADMINISTRATION concluded that we missed Bin Laden at Tora Bora. Are you so out of touch Mr. President that you don't even know what your own administration knows to be true? I know it's "hard work" George, but try and keep up. (Why do I think that he heard that an awful lot in school growing up?)
Intelligence officials have assembled what they believe to be decisive evidence, from contemporary and subsequent interrogations and intercepted communications, that bin Laden began the battle of Tora Bora inside the cave complex along Afghanistan's mountainous eastern border. Though there remains a remote chance that he died there, the intelligence community is persuaded that bin Laden slipped away in the first 10 days of December.
After-action reviews, conducted privately inside and outside the military chain of command, describe the episode as a significant defeat for the United States. A common view among those interviewed outside the U.S. Central Command is that Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the war's operational commander, misjudged the interests of putative Afghan allies and let pass the best chance to capture or kill al Qaeda's leader.
I'm ready for a fresh start, how about you?
