Osama, you there?

After 9/11, President Bush rightly placed a priority on getting Osama bin Laden. The architect, financier, and public face of fundamental terrorists in Afghanistan claimed his place as the General Officer of the 9/11 attacks.

Bush said we'd get him dead or alive, and note to Karl: most of us surely preferred him dead. But something happened and Bush dropped the ball: Osama is still free, we are in Iraq, and our military is being ground to a pulp in the new center of terrorism in the Middle East: Iraq, a product of BushCo™ - Stay the Course!

Now Osama's being quoted in Presidential speeches and being used to justify our strategies in Iraq. From Bush's speech -- "Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden: “This Third World War … is raging in Iraq. The whole world is watching this war.” He says it will end in “victory and glory or misery and humiliation.”

Porter Goss recently said we know where he is, but don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by going in and grabbing him. Maybe Porter is being coy, you know how those CIA chiefs are.

Donald Rumsfeld even had the nerve to claim the isurgents have "no Ho Chi Min, no Mao". Hey Rummy, they have Osama! They don't need Mao! Osama did the dirty work and translated from Chinese to Arabic. Remember Osama? You can ask your boss. (Sheesh, I forget stuff and I'm in my forties, but lives and nations don't depend on my memory.)

You've come a long way, Osama.