Yellow Dog

Today marks the 4-year anniversary of Bush's receipt of a memo that stated "Bin Laden is Determined to Strike within the US"--a memo Bush ignored while attending to the more important task of clearing brush at the ranch in Crawford.

Four years later, Bush again goes on vacation (for FIVE weeks no less) on the very day that the 2nd-in-command of Al Qaeda issues a new threat.

Now, a CIA official has come forward to divulge that Bush let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in what one military officer calls a "strategic disaster." Failing to capture the individual responsible for plotting 9-11 is definitely a stategic disaster. But starting a war with a country that had nothing to do with 9-11 was the next stategic disaster. After ignoring the August 7 memo, failing to capture bin Laden, and compounding 3000 deaths on 9-11 with another 1800 US casualties (and upwards of 100,000 civilian casualties) in Iraq, how does Bush sleep at night (let alone take a five-week vacation)? And how do people who voted for Bush sleep at night?

Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com