Ron - Are you saying that we beat al-queda? That they are gone? We won? Well shit, then what do we need all this security for?
We didn't win jackshit. We killed a bunch of ragheads and threw some more in prison. See the report on how many of the people we had at Gitmo that it turned out had nothing to do with al-queda? We were shooting at shadows and hoping Osama was in there somewhere. Remember Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban? He is still out there. Besides Osama and Omar how many al-queda terrorists could the American public name at the height of the war last year? The people we killed we grunts. Peasants that were fighting for al-queda so that they could earn a little coin from the local warlords who funded and supported al-queda in their area. We may have killed the weed but the roots are still there, buried deep.
You think that since we have not heard from Osama that he is dead? He could be, but then again, if you were the most wanted man in the world would you want people knowing where you were or would you try to work in the shadows and not reveal yourself until you could present an encore? How do we know that the attacks in Bali, Egypt, Saudi Arabi, Yemen don't have Osama's fingerprints on them somehow. Our intelligence community may be damn good but they are not superhuman. How many years did the Unibomber go free? How long did it take us to find the D.C. Sniper last year? How long did Abu Nidal commit terrorist acts until he was killed last year in Baghdad (under mysterious circumstances
)? How long have we tried to catch the person responsible for the Anthrax scare in 2001? Since there have been no more Anthrax attacks are we to assume that the person responsible is dead? Your logic has many holes in it Mr. 12clicks.
Don't think that I see Saddam as a good guy, I don't. I think he would look nice on a morgue slab (or better yet in a box in little pieces). I just happen to think that al-queda is still our main threat. Not just al-queda, but every terrorist group that has people sitting in houses around the world thinking of ways to kill Americans. They can hit us then hide just like Osama. They know we will have a hard time finding them. Saddam on the otherhand knows that if he hits us with anything other than a conventional weapon Iraq WILL be glass. Kinda limits his actions. He may be crazy but he isn't exactly stupid. Of course if he thinks he is cornered he might resort to doing something stupid anyway.
Let's all just hope that one of his people will see the light and put a bullet in Saddam's head and save us a lot of trouble. then we can go back to killing the rest of the Muslim's outside of Iraq
