Bin Laden Dead - War Was Not the Answer  A lot of people will
make the point today that we should leave Afghanistan as soon as
possible now that our top goal of going over there has been
accomplished. This comes, ironically, eight years to the day
after President Bush declared Mission Accomplished in regard to
Iraq -- and can anyone remind me what that mission was?  We
declared two wars to target Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. They
were in Afghanistan and Iraq. We killed bin Laden in Pakistan.
The idea that Iraq had anything to do with Osama bin Laden and
the attacks against this country was comical and tragic at the
same time. Now that we have killed bin Laden in Pakistan, can we
ask the incredibly wrong neo-cons what Iraq had to do with 9/11
again? And will they apologize for leading us into Iraq when it
turns out we were right, the enemy was many countries away?  But
that's obvious, though it will not be mentioned enough today.
So, let's talk about Afghanistan. Yes, we did chase bin Laden
from there initia