>If the effort that has gone into Iraq was put into finding Bin Laden, do you really think he would now be so at ease that he can distribute new videotape of himself at any time(he looks very relaxed too I might add). Imagine if we put Japan on the backburner to concentrate on Italy after Pearl Harbor...

140,000 US troops in Iraq, approximately 20,000 in Afghaninstan. At the time Tora Bora was surrounded, the number of US troops could be measured in the hundreds.