That was when "al Qaeda" was all but defeated and Bush was claiming 75 percent of "known" leaders captured and killed.
Now AQ is back- and stronger than ever in Iraq - heck- is leading the insurgency there- and that is why "we" need to stay there. Uh huh.
"al Qaeda"! The organization that is whatever DC needs it to be at any given moment - weak, strong, weak, strong, almost defeated, re-formed, scattered, highly organized, broken up, mobile, immobile . . . whatever policy of murder, theft, and power consolidation DC needs to justify here at home or abroad the formless gob of nothing that is AQ is there- to be shaped into whatever is required at the moment- and always there as well- is our media to parrot the latest line on "AQ" by DC without blinking.