"Dead or Alive"

Well, whaddya know?

That, incidentally, comes from the news section, not the editorial page. It's just a fact. Some folks talk about how Iraq robs the military of resources needed for the fight against bin Laden, but from the Bush administration's perspective, the media's focus on the complicated failure of the war in Iraq has been far better than letting that attention settle on the simple failure of their hunt for bin Laden.