Now that no one's paying attention....

I was stunned during last year's presidential debate to hear Bush derisively dismiss Kerry's observation that he had said he wasn't worried about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. "Sounds like one'a them... hehhehheh... exaggerations." Never mind that it was true. And that wasn't the only time Bush lied about his administration's bungling of the Afghanistan operation. From Salon:

Remember when George W. Bush railed against John Kerry for suggesting that the administration missed a chance to catch Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora? At a campaign stop in Greeley, Colo., in October, Bush said: "Now my opponent is throwing out the wild claim that he knows where bin Laden was in the fall of 2001 -- and that our military had a chance to get him in Tora Bora. This is an unjustified and harsh criticism of our military commanders in the field. This is the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking." It turns out that Kerry may have been right. As the Associated Press reports, the Pentagon has now made what appears to be a "definitive statement" that bin Laden was at Tora Bora and evaded capture by U.S. troops there.

Of course, Salon should point out that the administration didn't use US troops at Tora Bora-- they "outsourced" the job to Afghani warlords.