If it's Thursday, it must be Tikrit . . .

“. . . al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Laden is no more.”
__The Obama, 5 October 2012

Presently al Qaeda, in the form of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has run into the late Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. They plan to run into Baghdad.

As far as DonDiego can determine Osama bin Laden remains dead.

***EDITED TO ADD ***

In response to reader Chilcoot's observation that alQaeda leadership no longer holds ISIL to its bosom, DonDiego adds the following clarifications:

In April 2013 the name of the al Qaeda organization The Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) was changed to The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL). It is these rather unpleasant fellows who are presently causing havoc in Iraq.

On 3 February, 2014 al Qaeda General Ayman al-Zawahiri stated that ISIS/ISIL "is not a branch of the al-Qaeda group [and al-Qaeda] does not have an organizational relationship with it and is not the group responsible for their actions.”

DonDiego apologizes to al Qaeda for accusing them of the present pillaging of Iraq, above.

In the future DonDiego will refer to ISIS/ISIL as "a derivative of al Qaeda" to soothe the tender sensibilities of Chilcoot towards any, even unintentional, criticism of al Qaeda.

Gee, who would have thought that there might be unpleasant consequences from invading Iraq......

Well there's $20B down the toilet.

Hussein was such a good guy

Smart people predicted this twelve years ago. Dimwits complain about it today.

Times 150.

Spending a few trillion dollars to replace one oppressive regime with another? I'm trying to remember if anyone on this board thought that was a good idea. Hmmmm....cant quite remember....but for some strange reason I keep seeing a tomato garden in the hills.

Am I the only who remebers 9/11? Some of you people act like the US never got bitch-slapped and sucker punched all at the same time when the entire worlds' eyes were glued to a tv. When that happened the US became at at war against terrorists, we wre going to go kisck ass regardless. I can remember right after the attcks, it was one time this country was completely united, everyone wanted justice for what had happened. I for one will never ever forget that day, watching people jump from the WTC towers. EVER.

Bush said that night and I think most of the nation agreed, "we will not distinguish between the terrorist or the nations that harbor them".

We were going to kick some ass somewhere, PERIOD. When things started dragging out and the bodies started coming home, the libs start screaming no WMD's, war for oil, blah, blah, blah. the whole thing became a huge quagmire and remains so to this day.

My entire point is, don't f'n act like 9/11 never occurred and there was no reason to react to the event. Bunch pansy-a$$ #@**#@#-&**#@#

Iraq was not involved with 911 in any way, shape or form. I thought Dick Cheney was the only person left on the planet still confused about that. I stand corrected.

Wow - how can we respond to this idiotic post by a seemingly intelligent person? Next time we get attacked by Saudi Muslim extremists maybe we should invade Russia?