You can smell the desperation in John Kerry’s latest attack, in which he says if he were president he would have donned his lucky hat and camo gear, grabbed an M-16, and hunted down that dastardly criminal Osama himself. Now that’s tough. Fear Flipper’s wrath. Kerry: Bush Allowed Bin Laden to Escape.

“You want to talk about the war on terror, Mr. President? Let’s talk about it,” Kerry yelled while his supporters cheered him on. “Let’s talk about what happened when you let Osama bin Laden escape in Afghanistan.

“Let’s talk about what happened when we had the world’s number one terrorist, number one criminal, cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora. What did the president do? Do you know what he did? He outsourced the job of capturing him, just like he outsourced a lot of American jobs. He gave it to Afghan warlords who only one week earlier were fighting against us.” …

“Can you imagine trusting them when you have your 10th Mountain Division, the United States Marine Corps, when you had all the power and ability of the best-trained military in the world?” Kerry told a rally at the University of Nevada-Reno. “I would have used our military and we would have gone after and captured or killed Osama bin Laden. That’s tough.”