I guess that such rhetoric has become so common among Leftists that it does not even get covered by the major media.

When the US didn’t capture Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, it wasn’t by mistake, Congressman Maurice Hinchey of Hurley theorized.

Instead, Hinchey said the Administration had a motive for not capturing him. “Why did we do that? The only logical answer that comes to mind is they didn’t want to capture Bin Laden because if they captured Bin Laden and wiped out the Taliban, which they could have done at that moment, there would have been no justification for going to war in Iraq, and they wanted to use that as a justification for attacking Iraq,” he said.

Hinchey is a critic of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, who he says lied about the reasons for going into Iraq.

In a different time – during WWII, for example, under Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt – such rhetoric would have earned one a jail cell for undermining the war effort. Maybe we have not become the dictatorship that the Left claims we have.