Attention: conservative callers, ranters, and others who prefer ignorance...

Here is a fact which you cannot be bothered to check: Bill Clinton did try to attack Osama bin Laden. Several times. Some of those times, he was stopped by--wait for it--the Pentagon. Other times, he realized so many Afghan citizens would be killed that he called off the attack.

Now that the usual arguments that Bush is God have failed, conservatives are going for the "well, okay, he's not handling the 'War on Terror' well, but...but...but none of this would have happened if Clinton had done his job" tactic. At no time do they consult recent history to discover that Clinton was more interested than the Pentagon in attacking bin Laden. Or that his funny little quirk about killing innocent people kept him from launching some planned attacks.

I, for one, am glad Clinton was stopped by the Pentagon, and glad that--on some occasions--he stopped himself. Killing bin Laden accomplishes nothing other than creating a new martyr. But for the sake of reality, could you people invest in just a slight bit of fact-checking before you pollute the airwaves and newsprint with total lies?