Bush: Ain’t my fault bin Laden got away

I’m only human, Prez claims

Giving credence to a new theory, namely that if one Republican woman lies, it’s open season for all GOPers of the “fair sex,” Dana Perino uncorks the latest White House whopper.

“This is not the movies. We don't have super powers,” said White House press secretary Dana Perino. “But what we do have is very dedicated people who are working with our allies and trying to bring (al-Qaida leaders) to justice.”

Would those “very dedicated people” include the Afghan tribesmen Bush and Tommy Effing Franks expected would seal the perimeter at Tora Bora?

Meanwhile, in the ongoing hunt for Osama, it looks like the What-a-gon plans on using more Predator drones.

That’s not a new strategy as much as it is an admission of failure of the old one. And, it might be no more likely to succeed.

Pakistani officials said the CIA and the U.S. military have played into bin Laden's hands by pursuing al-Qaeda with bombs and missiles. Pashtun tribes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, angry at the number of civilian casualties, see the United States as the enemy, the officials said. Despite a $25 million reward posted by the U.S. government, no one has been willing to turn in the al-Qaeda leader.

“Unless you have people who support you, human intelligence will never work,” said Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, a retired Pakistani general who oversaw efforts to track bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders after 2001. “You have to have friendly people.”

At the same time, bureaucratic infighting between Pentagon and CIA has been an ongoing issue.

Read the whole story. It’s a pretty damning indictment of the BushCo clusterfuck in Afghanistan.

To add to the scariness, it’s now being reported that in July, Bush authorized cross-border excursions into Pakistan without Islamabad’s approval.

Well, that’s just wunderbar.

In international law, I think that’s called invading a sovereign nation.