Fact is, Bush *STILL* hasn't done jack about getting bin Laden despite all of the proclamations against terrorism. Not only is bin Laden still loose somewhere but the Taliban are making a comeback in Afghanistan. Mission not done there.

As for al-Zarqawi, had anyone outside of the snoops heard of this guy before the invasion or Iraq? Nope. Not until after we invaded and gotten stuck in the mire did he start up. Arguably, Bush made him what he was by giving him the opportunity to ply the bomb trade using our kids as targets.

And as for the "War on Terrorism", forget it. It can't be won or lost. It's not a military thing either. It's a cultural thing and unless we want to do a little bout of genocide the "terrorists" can't and won't be eliminated. Keeping our troops in Iraq won't help matters either. Somehow making Iraq stable isn't going to, miraculously, make the world free of terrorists. We'll just have a change of venue and even then there's no guarantee that Iraq will stay stable or remain free of the bad guys.

But give Bush a brownie point for not saying something stupid about al-Zarqawi...yet.