Hey, MoveOn! Someone needs to make this ad! Free feel to pass it on.
http://topdog04.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/7/161714/8169Visual: "How Bush let Bin Laden Escape" text over video clip of Bin Laden walking through that mountainous valley with his aide and his cane.
Voice Over: On Novemember 21, 2001, President Bush asked Don Rumsfeld to start working on war plans to invade Iraq.
Visual: Documented excerpt from Bob Woodward's 'Plan of Attack' (p. 5)
Voice Over: Within hours, Rumsfeld ordered General Franks to prepare a "commander's estimate" for Iraq and formally present it to him six days later, on November 27th.
Visual: Second excerpt including the text below, plus the adjoining sentence: "G--d---," Franks said, "what the f--- are they talking about?" (p. 8)
Voice Over:
Franks was incredulous. They were in the midst of one war, Afghanistan, and now they wanted detailed planning for another, Iraq?
Visual: News headlines dated from late November: Bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora complex on Afghan-Pakistan border.
Voice Over: What's so important about the last week of November, 2001?
Visual: News headlines: World's most wanted man escaped between Nov. 28 and Nov. 30, by walking on foot into Pakistan.
Voice Over: That's the same week Bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora into Pakistan.
Visual: Bush looking like he really screwed up.
Voice Over: Bush's misguided focus on Iraq helped Bin Laden get away.
Visual: Smoking ruins at ground zero.
Voice Over: Don't let it happen again. Disclaimer.