Atrios over at Eschaton, my current favorite political site, has a long entry that sums up nicely the post 9/11 mythology of the Bush Administration. Here’s a bit (go read the rest).

Right now, We All Know that George Bush showed “great leadership” after 9/11. How do we know that? Well, because the goddamn Democrats keep saying it. Truth? Bush ran and hid and then didn’t stop wetting his pants until 3 days later. He then went and bombed a stone age country back to the stone age, and then didn’t provide the resources to rebuild it. Thousands of Taliban and al Qaeda members were allowed to escape to Pakistan, defeating much of the purpose of said bombing, and we never found Bin Laden, the stated architect of the 9/11 attack.