Bin Laden and the Driver

August 6, 2008. It was 7 years ago that the President was handed a memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U. S." And Six Years, 11 Months, and 5 Days ago, on September 11, 2001, he struck.

Bin Laden is still at large - but we got his driver - sentenced to 5 and a half years. The Taliban, which gave bin Laden his base of operations, is growing stronger. After going after bin Laden for a while, cornered bin Laden in Tora Bora, paid some Taliban fighters to 'take him out' and they took him out, to lunch, to a nice little bistro not far from the fighting.

We shifted the "War on Terror" to Iraq. In Iraq we have 4,000 dead, and 19,000 serious injuries - lost arms, legs. I don't know how many dead or wounded Iraquis. We now know the justifications for the war in Iraq were fake - there were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no chemical weapons program, no nuclear weapons program. There was no link between Saddam and bin Laden - Saddam killed people like bin Laden. Bin Laden hates secular Arabs like Saddam almost as much as he hates Americans.

In addition to the dead and wounded, we have squandered hundreds of Billions of dollars, maybe over $One Trillion. The political cost is greater. America's good name has been dragged thru the mud. Our national security has been compromised. Thanks to us, Iran is stronger militarily, politically, and economically. Iran is stronger militarily because Iraq, their 5,000 year rival, has been thrown into chaos. Iran is stronger politically, as they are now able to foster more chaos in Iraq, in Lebanon and in Gaza with Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah. And Iran is stronger economically as oil is sky high.

John "W" McCain vowed that we'll be in Iraq for the next 100 years, as long as it takes - and bin Laden will surely by dead by 2108!

And we got bin Laden's driver. Bin Laden won't be going anywhere. Now if we can only get the producer, camera man and sound crew, we'll be able to silence bin Laden once and for all.