Goddammit, Bush, kill the sonofabitch, you incompetent twit!

At the not inconsiderable risk of having Fixer beat me black and blue, thump me a pink belly with sap gloves, and rub noogies in my noggin with dirty gravel, I will now link you to a Colonel Hunt. I got no idea what he was a Colonel in. I'm doing this at great personal peril to show you that even though a stopped clock is right twice a day, which is a pretty generous comparison considering the record of this outfit, it's wrong again one second later.

We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.

Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.

That was the 'got it right' part. How 'right' perhaps even the Colonel doesn't know. Operative word is 'criminally'.

Something bothers me that the Colonel didn't really address: since when does 'the best Air Force on the planet' have to 'beg' to shoot up the bad guys in a war zone? Orders to the contrary when it comes to this particular bad guy? We'll get to that in a moment.

Then the Bird gets back to normal:

You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.

There is certainly a wealth of incompetence in the Bush administration, but that's not the reason they didn't 'pull the trigger' on OBL. Perhaps the Colonel knows and can't bring himself to say it, but the real reason is that it would be a 'friendly fire' incident. If Osama had a cell phone filled with C-4 up to his ear, Bush wouldn't hit 'send'.

Bush needs bin Laden and al Qaeda as boogiemen to scare hash marks into our skivvies, not that I need any help with that at my age. He needs them to justify the damage he has already done to the United States and the rest of the world and plans to do for at least the next fourteen months. Bin Laden dead, poof! goes the pouf.

Besides, the bin Ladens are old family friends and business partners in crime of the Bush famiglia.

Then, remarkably, I wholeheartedly agree with the Colonel again:

Our men and women are being blown up and killed every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every family who is separated from a loved one during this war is being insulted by our government when they fail to kill those who have already killed us and will not hesitate to do so again and again. Damn it guys, PULL THE DAMN TRIGGER.

Setting aside for a minute the fact that Bush's Oil War is a criminal enterprise that surpasses even the family traditions he was raised with, even people on his side are starting to complain about the way he is going about it. The right (heh) reaction for the wrong reasons.