Bin Laden is dead.
Saddam is a dead man walking, the question is not 'if', but 'when'.
The kook at the airport in LA was a terrorist, yes, but easily dispatched and his work, while tragic, was futile.
I'll go back to what I said on this board the night of 911: the people who started this will rue the day they conceived it, and alot of slop is going to get cleaned up in the process, stuff that should have been done in the last 8 years.
And I've also said many times that this war will continue until the profit is taken out of terror: Victims of terror who lose wives and children are entitled to the lives and property of the perpetrators and their families.
That would change the rules of this engagement neatly and quickly.
NOW you have to sort through a whole lot of Islamic propaganda. Between all the Arab websites popping up all over the place and THIS guy:
"Abu Zubaydah, the top al-Qaeda operative arrested in March in Pakistan, has told his American interrogators that the terrorist group was planning a wide range of 'mass casualty attacks'.
Whom I hope our guys are taking with a HUGE grain of salt...we have more propaganda than fact.
They fired the first volley by taking down what they saw as symbolic Judaism in the form of the destruction of the WTC. Let's match them like this:
Step 1: Phone up Indonesia and tell them to clear out the Pertronas Towers 1 and 2, the symbol of ascendant Islam. We are destroying them completely, afterwhich we are making it a landfill for pig carcasses. We will at least give them the courtesy of a warning where they did not do the same with us. Our intent is to destroy the symbol, not kill the people.
Step 2: Instead of continually losing more freedoms at airports and in our daily lives to a government that isn't making anyone else feel safer by shaking down Medal of Honor winners or 85 year old Anglo-grandmas, which is where terrorists are winning this thing, send the Saudi king a DVD featuring what daisy cutter bombs are capable of doing. Put him on notice that we will destroy the symbols of Islam systematically until Bin Laden is handed over, and terrorism ceases. Targets to be destroyed in this order:
a. Failure to produce Bin Laden? Destroy the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem
b. Still fail to turn over Bin Laden or in the event of any one additional single act of terrorism against a US target: Phone the mayor of Medina, and tell him to clear the town. It's Petronas time all over again, pig carcasses and all.
c. Still don't get it? Third time, and it's Mecca itself.
How's that for a crusade? Simple effective solution isn't it? Worked with the Barbary pirates. Too intellegent for Colin Powell and that subterfuge over at the State Dep't. perhaps.