Bush Let Zarqawi Get Away, Too

Drum's been on this story for a long time. I was skeptical, but now we have a named source. Bush's role in letting Zarqawi get away was even more substantial and direct than his role in letting bin Laden get away: he repeatedly refused to bomb the house where Zarqawi was staying, despite the fact that there would be no collateral civilian damage.

The administration claims that they didn't want to anger the French--an absurd and almost certainly false explanation given their attitude toward that country. The obvious explanation--given what we know about this administration--is that they wanted to use the fact that Zarqawi was in Kurdistan to prop up their claims that Iraq was harboring terrorists. (Note: some people who actually know what they're talking about offer this explanation, too.)

What, I ask you, has this administration gotten right? It's almost difficult to imagine an administration being more incompetent and more dishonest...and more ineffectual in responding to an attack on our soil.