[laconic]

GW Bush also largely ignored the search for the mass murderer Bin Laden in favor of the Iraq invasion. In my view this was a crazy diversion of focus and resources based on bizarre assumptions (I remember Bush firing a budget type over his public assertion that Iraq would cost us $ 100 billion - it turns out it cost trillions; bin Laden needed to be nailed to the wall as soon as possible. I agree with Obama on virtually nothing but I will give him credit for taking out bin Laden.

[grania]

Almost all of the 911 maniacs were in the US illegally. One would've thought the logical consequence would've been to get those in the US illegally out of the country, and keep them out. Would we be safer today if that had been the direction taken? I suspect so.

Instead, GWB gave us a "war on terror" that never ends.