Bush, November 24, 2003:
“Working with a fine coalition, our military went to Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps of al Qaeda, and put the Taliban out of business forever.”
Bush, June 15, 2004:
“Coalition forces, including many brave Afghans, have brought America, Afghanistan and the world its first victory in the war on terror. Afghanistan is no longer a terrorist factory sending thousands of killers into the world.”
Reality, June 27, 2004:
Taliban guerrillas kidnapped and killed 16 people in an Afghan province after finding them with voter registration cards for the country’s September elections, officials said Sunday.
The killings Friday night in the province of Zabul were the most serious attack yet on the elections, which the Taliban and allied Islamic militants have vowed to disrupt.
News of the violence came a day after a bomb killed two young women, one a student, working to register voters for the U.N.-Afghan electoral body in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
That’s two missions, neither of which have been accomplished.