Dan Rather, in Baghdad, was making a transition in tonight's CBS Evening News from a story on Iraq to another set in Afghanistan, when he said that American forces are "still" hunting (or chasing or pursuing) Osama bin Laden.
Rather is an exceptionally good reporter, but his "still" was misleading.
In fact, American forces have done little to find bin Laden for two years. The nation's military and intelligence forces have been absorbed instead in the planning and execution of the White House war on Iraq.
After letting bin Laden slip away during the conquest of Afghanistan, the Administration never finished the job of freeing that country from the Taliban, never gave President Karzai control of the country and put the task of finding the man most responsible for 9/11/01 on the back burner.
While I think Rather's "still" was just a careless mistake, he probably wouldn't have made it if Governor Dean was still around arguing that the US took its eye off the (bin Laden) ball when it warred on Iraq.
Maybe Sen. Kerry will get around to it.