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Where do we go from here? Or, put another way, what ever happened to the War on Terror? In invading Iraq, Bush pulled virtually all of our resources away from dismantling Al Qaeda and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. I believe the phrase "dead or alive" was used prominently, then quickly forgotten.
So, if we do wrap up our misadventure in Iraq, where does that leave us in regards to 9/11? Do we finally get around to going after the perpetrators? Do we pretend that installing a friendly government in Iraq somehow provides closure for the 9/11 attacks, despite a complete and utter lack of connection between the two things? Or do bin Laden and his people have to kill a few thousand more American to remind us who our enemy actually is, before Bush sits up and takes the action he should have taken on 9/12/01?
