Osama who? Guess we forgot about him. He didn't forget about us, though.
Yep. The Iraq adventure has made us a lot safer. And where IS Osama, by the way?
On September 12th of '01, did you believe Al-Qaida will hit us again with a major attack in the next six months? That was 32 months ago. We're due for an attack, but we were due for an attack on September 12th and 13th, and on October 11th, and they never came. The reason they are regrouping now (if these are good reports) has little to do with Iraq and much to do with it taking them 32 months to regroup after we cut them into pieces in Afghanistan.
Are you really dense enough to think that finding bin Laden is just a simple matter of manpower? Or a simple matter of not being in Iraq? When we pull the last troops out of Baghdad, will he magically appear in a cell in Gitmo? Will we send a division from Iraq to Afghanistan and it will be just enough guys to find the cave?
Also note that you can't have it both ways: An Al-Qaida that can recruit a trillion jihadis while jihadis are being killed in droves far from the best targets is also well-run enough to keep it's leadership hidden. An Al-Qaeda that stupidly hands us Osama unless we're involved in Iraq is going to be fumblin' mumblin' and stumblin'. You can't have the easy Osama and the mighty al-Qaeda. One or the other.