Consider yourself flamed. And guess where we'd have been fighting OBL and his ilk for the last five years...right here in the good old USA (see today's ABC "exclusive" re: sending in more "students" to have another shot at immortality). Like flies to honey, our presence in Iraq has kept them right where we want them. And this isn't just another "police action" that you can manage from Washington with all of the usual micro-managers. This is as big in every sense as the Cold War battle with Communism except this time it's Islamic Radicalism. You kid yourself if you think that not going into Iraq was the better choice...pay up now or leave it for the next President to clean up. And that is just what Bill Clinton did. Thank God this is a Republic and that our forefathers understood how easily the masses can be swayed in a pure democracy for the bold and responsible like Bush/Cheney should have the power to do what's best for the country, despite the poll numbers.
"Like flies to honey, our presence in Iraq has kept them right where we want them."
There's plenty of honey in Afghanistan. We could have swatted the same flies there.