In his most recent article for Slate, Hitchens says that things have gotten so bad for the Democrats that some unnamed Democrats are not only entertaining paranoid fantasies about the Republicans harboring Bin Laden somewhere only to trot him out at the right time, but they are actually hopping, at least “subliminally”, for bad news from Iraq. http://slate.com/id/2107193/" title="http://slate.com/id/2107193/" target="_blank"http://slate.com/id/2107193/      

Now, I am sure many people realize that if their boss was to drop dead it would be open the door to a big promotion.  However, realizing this and hoping their boss drops dead are two different things. 

Besides, one could easily accuse the Republicans of having been guilty of same kind of “subliminal” thinking.  For example, it must have dawned on the boys of the Pentagon and Dick Cheney that if Bin Laden were to be caught at, say, Tora Bora, the case war with Iraq would be harder to make.  Maybe this explains why they decided to outsource the task of capturing Bin Laden to the Northern Alliance.     

All kidding aside, one news organization has claimed that the Bushies were guilty of much more than just a thought crime.  According to NBC the administration put the politics of war ahead of the national security. NBC alleges that a few months before the war, the administration had good idea that Zarqawi was in Northern Iraq in a region of Kurdistan controlled by Ansar al Islam. However, rather than striking at Zarqawi the administration decided to postpone an attack until after the war began. The reason being they feared that if the attack was successful, their case tying Al Qaeda to Iraq would be fatally undermined and with that potentially the case for war.  http://slate.com/id/2100549" title="http://slate.com/id/2100549" target="_blank"http://slate.com/id/2100549