Why has Bush allowed the Cole attackers to go free?

UPDATE: Precede this post by witnessing this amazing geyser of truth by Keith Olbermann. To paraphrase Lord Buckley, "when he lays it down, WHA-BOM, it stays there."

During his interview with Bill Clinton, lying reactionary FOX-fraud Chris Wallace pretended that he has asked similarly hard questions of Bush administration officials. Bullshit.

Consider the attack on the Cole, which occurred three months before Clinton left office -- months spent mounting an FBI investigation in Yemen, no easy task.

So why did Bush do so little during his eight months? And why has Chris Wallace never asked anyone in the Bush administration about this mysterious non-response?

If you are looking for a good laugh, read the transcript of Condi Rice hemming and hawing when grilled by Senator Bob Kerrey on the administraton's inaction. Here's a sample of how Rice ducked and weaved:

I believe that there's a question of whether or not you respond in a tactical sense or whether you respond in a strategic sense; whether or not you decide that you're going to respond to every attack with minimal use of military force and go after every -- on a kind of tit-for-tat basis.

I haven't seen a right-wing bitch do a dance like that since the heyday of Ginger Rogers.

Here's the kicker: thirteen men convicted of the Cole attack, including planners Jamal al-Badawi and Abu Assem al-Ahdal, escaped from a Yemeni prison early this year. Supposedly, they tunneled out of jail and popped out of the ground within a mosque.

Odd that the Yemenis would keep all those guys locked up together. Odd that their confinement was so brief and their escape was so easy.

Odd, too, that the right-wing media makes no mention of the fact that the men who attacked our ship have been free for the better part of a year.

If this escape had occurred under Clinton's watch, Rush and the gang would offer daily reminders. But since the escape occurred under Bush's watch...well, let's be honest: How many of you heard about it for the first time on this humble blog?

Bush has never mentioned this escape. We have no indication that United States intelligence has ever made any effort to find these fugitives.

By the way: Nobody of Chris Wallace's visibility has ever asked why John O'Neil quit in disgust only after Bush took over. O'Neil was, by all reports, not an easy man to get along with, and he certainly had his problems during the Clinton years. But it was Bush's close relations with Saudi Arabia that really pissed him off.