Did everyone catch this Menendez-Armitage exchange?

[Cocoa]

nice slam at Bush. Expect Kerry to make hay out of Bush's "Taliban" gaffe, and expect the whores to downplay it...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/politics/campaign/29CND-HOUSE.html

The mood seemed to change when Representative Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, seized on declaration in Ohio last week that "as a result of the United States military, the Taliban is no longer in existence."

So, Mr. Menendez asked Mr. Armitage, "did you fail to give the president a briefing that the Taliban is still in existence?"
Mr. Armitage said the president meant that the Taliban "is not shackling 28 million people anymore," not that it had literally vanished.

The reply did not entirely satisfy Mr. Menendez, who said, "I think we have to stop sugar-coating the realities of what is happening in Afghanistan and in our other conflicts and be honest with the American people."

Mr. Armitage did not respond directly to Mr. Menendez's "sugar-coating" metaphor, choosing instead to use one of his own. "The Taliban is very much running from hidey hole to hidey hole," he said.

[NewJeffCT]

1. Now, didn't a Republican congressman

Didn't a Republican congressman Recently say that the Taliban control 90% of Afghanistan?