I suggest that you, my friend, pull up the feed from 4/1/02 press briefing of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers and tell me that this media circus was none other than 'giddy' where one of the major theme's of the press conference was that good Chairman Myers may have offended his wife during the previous press conference.
All fun and games huh?? So where's Osama and his henchman. Oh sure...nothing has happened since the mobilization, but nothing has struck this soil heretofore...time is on their side, why hurry it.
Again...where IS he? You, all military might and know how...can't answer that, now can you?
Did you forget the first world trade center bombing? was was that, a love pat?
Did you know that the joker behind that had a organization of his very own, operating right in the US and it was involved in car bombing, assasination of muslim whistleblowers, fraud, etc? Jamaat al Fuqra. They had pretty much free rein all through the last decade, and were dabbling in aviation education as well. They were part of a Pakistani organization related to al-Qeada.
In fact, many of those terrorists who hit us on 9/11 were here for years, while Bill Clinton and friends were going after a security guard in Atlanta over a pipe bomb that wasn't his, and placing restrictions and stumbling block sin the way to make investigation of muslim extremist group s and their 'not-for-profit' extensions more difficult. Their activities aren't the scale of 9/11 but they were attacks against the US.
The Egyptian pilot who sent everyone on his plane into the drink was an incident right off of our coast. Flight 800 has some huge question marks around it, though officially "an accident" there had been a publicized threat against aircraft.
A Pakistani was caught trying to get over the border up in the Vancouver area, I believe, with a large quantity of explosives. There was a strike planned for an airport in California. There are lists of incidents here in the US from assorted groups, with cells in Colorado, Florida, California, Oklahoma, etc. Try picking up the book 'Jihad in America' sometime.
The problem is enormous because this country had dismantled some of its best tools for dealing with this kind of terrorism. The country, quite simply, had SLACKED OFF.
The state of the US military was a disaster as it had been allowed to decay almost without obstruction, for years. It still needs some work, some problems ar political and politicians in congress won't go along with the fix.
Are you Senator Dasshole or just following the talking points?
The answer to your question is WHO CARES? He has not put out a video since December. Therefore, he is either dead or in a cave soiling one Depends after another. In either case he seems to have become irrelevant.
Meanwhile, we are slaughtering the remaining al Qaeda in Afghanistan, rounding up others in Pakistan and elsewhere, there have been no attacks since 9/11, and you think we are losing because we haven't captured a rich, Saudi coward who sends other to their deaths while he hides far away from the action. A-f'in-mazing.
Read on, MacDuff!: Abu (Sayyaf)part of Oklahoma blast
What's with the snide attitiude toward Rumfeld? You think you could do a better job than this consummate military spokesman and strategist?
Where is Osama? Good question. I doubt we are being told everything about where Osama might be, or is. But perhaps the nabbing of this guy will help in the search. But Osama is no doubt getting lots of cover from The Palestine Chronicle crowd, and his friends in Iran and Iraq, the same gang that PAYS Palestinians to kill Jews (and Arabs) in Israel. You don't like Rush you don't like Rummy...who do you like and respect? I would really like to know.