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Agenda-driven serial liar Thomas Friedman wonders today how the Bush administration could be losing the "PR war" against Osama bin Laden:

One thing that has always baffled me about the Bush team's war effort in Iraq and against Al Qaeda is this: How could an administration that was so good at Swift-boating its political opponents at home be so inept at Swift-boating its geopolitical opponents abroad?

How could the Bush team Swift-boat John Kerry and Max Cleland -- authentic Vietnam war heroes, whom the White House turned into surrendering pacifists in the war on terror -- but never manage to Swift-boat Osama bin Laden, a genocidal monster, who today is still regarded in many quarters as the vanguard of anti-American "resistance."

Gee, we dunno, Tom, how could the Bush administration have won the PR war necessary to dupe the American public and strong-arm the Congress into essentially abandoning the war against bin Laden and invading Iraq instead, thereby crippling the "war on terror" and destroying the U.S.'s credibility in the Muslim world?

Even today the Bush administration and their defenders argue that anyone who disagrees with the policy or prosecution of the war in Iraq is succombing to "the allure of defeat" and is insufficiently anti-terrorist.

How in the world did they get the PR juice for such outrageous arguments? How did they manage to thoroughly conflate the war against bin Laden with the invasion of Iraq? How, Tom?

It's a mystery.