However I’m sure it must have been some sort of accident and the editor who permitted the FoxNews article is now flipping burgers at the FoxNews commisary.

If the article is accurate about the Bush Administration allowing Osama bin laden to get away, again, then two items are sure:
1. The story will never, ever be aired on Fox again (as opposed to the “Bill Clinton let Osama get away” items that Fox airs almost weekly).
2. We can expect a long series of articles from the American Enterprise Institute detailing how none of this is actually George W. Bush’s fault: He the President who is the embodiment of Abraham Lincoln in the 21st Century.

To me personally, this is not anything terribly new: Just another in a long, almost weekly, series of incompetencies, blunders and political hackery that has reached the level when another botched Bush Administration action no longer even merits front-page coverage. In fact, the stories that do make headline coverage, such as the FEMA rescue work in California, are when the Loyal Bushies actually do something right (but then, as with the “press conference”, they can always be counted on to make fools of everyone who ever believed them).

What if, as happened during the Clinton Administration, a high ranking foreigner was with Osama and killing him might have caused trouble in other areas of American diplomacy?

Rick Rick Rick..

You’ll never be able to grasp the nuance of the situation with that Sep. 10th mindset dude.

“Only the fringe right argues that those other publications are not legitimate news outlets with individuals who exhibit bias.”

I suppose that depends on how you define “fringe right”, doesn’t it?

Oh, and I’m enjoying your re-opened comments section. From your new rules:
“The rules are simple; insult me or other commenters, you’re out.”

You, from this thread alone”
“Thank you for admitting you’re a hypocrite.”
“and then comment intelligently. I guess that lets you out…”
“something the left and apparently you don’t have the intellectual honesty to do.”
“And then go back to kindergarten and learn how to read.”
“Too busy being an asshole to read that, huh.”

I certainly see why you wouldn’t want anybody in the comments to insult you or other posters. Kudos to you for taking a firm stand on allowing open debate, and the moral fortitude to live up to it yourself.

But, I really think I believe him in this case, and the reason for that is, as George Bush said to Fred Barnes, and which Barnes then repeated to Fox:

“Well, he said, look, you can send 100,000 special forces, that’s the figure he used, to the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan and hunt him down, but he just said that’s not a top priority use of American resources. His vision of a war on terror is one that involves intelligence to find out from people, to get tips, to follow them up and break up plots to kill Americans before they occur. That’s what happened recently in that case of the planes that were to be blown up by terrorists, we think coming from England, and that’s the top priority. He says, you know, getting Osama bin Laden is a low priority compared to that.”

That was last year, and I really don’t think anything has changed. Catching Osama bin Laden is a low priority for this administration.

But to your point that “The Left” has hypocritically pounced on this story as The Truth . . . who are you talking about? You don’t even say who it is you’re quoting to represent the views of “The Left.” How do we know you haven’t taken a couple of comments from some response thread on some fringe blog?

You start out with a perfectly valid point and then twist it into a completely unsubstantiated attack on “Lefties”

These are the direct descendants of the Civil War Copperheads. They are anti-American. Treasonous would not be too strong a term. And until the rest of us realize we have the slavery loving Copperheads back, and deal with them as they deserve, we are not going to win the war on terrorists.