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Second, Edwards twice noted that the administration had Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants surrounded near Tora Bora but outsourced the job of killing them to poorly trained, poorly equipped Afghan militias of dubious loyalty. Kerry had raised this twice in the first presidential debate. Neither Bush then, nor Cheney last night, even attempted to explain that decision. And there's a good reason: They can't.

If anything Kerry and Edwards have undersold just how devastating this indictment is. We had one chance, which we'll never get again, to used massed military power to destroy the Al Qaeda leadership. We had one chance to implant a liberal government in the Middle East and possibly reform the poisonous political culture of Islamic radicalism. Bush not only failed at both, he failed in obvious ways, which will probably have tragic historical consequences. That is a thousand times more damning than some missed votes in the Senate.