Incompetence raised to the nth.

We've heard this before, but today there's new confirmation of the fact that Bush refused to kill Zarqawi when he had the chance. The reason: Because he wanted to invade Iraq.

The United States deliberately passed up repeated opportunities to kill the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, before the March 2003 US-led invasion of that country.

The claim, by former US spy Mike Scheuer, was made in an interview to be shown on ABC TV's Four Corners tonight...

Mr Bush had Zarqawi in his sights almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq," he told Four Corners.

And, that worked real well too, didn't it?