Bush Lie No. 3,425 . . . 3,426?

I'm losing count.

If I may digress a bit, I would like again to note how insensitive this president is. Visiting wounded at soldiers at Bethesda is something every president should do. But the only times he chooses to visit is for backdrops on speeches about Iraq or to challenge his political enemies, never to actually meet with the soldiers and e-m-p-a-t-h-i-z-e. Is that too much?

And now back to the on-going count of lies. Glenn Kessler writes in The Washington Post:

"President Bush asserted this week that the news media published a U.S. government leak in 1998 about Osama bin Laden's use of a satellite phone, alerting the al Qaeda leader to government monitoring and prompting him to abandon the device.

"The story of the vicious leak that destroyed a valuable intelligence operation was first reported by a best-selling book, validated by the Sept. 11 commission and then repeated by the president.

"But it appears to be an urban myth.

"The al Qaeda leader's communication to aides via satellite phone had already been reported in 1996."