Iraq has been a fiasco, but I don't think that the war on terror can be written off as a miserable failure because of this. How many successful terrorist attacks have been launched after Sept. 11 in the USA? None. Its disputable if Al Quada could pull off another Sept. 11 because of the wars in Afganastan. Iraq has been a distraction to the war on terror, and a costly one at that. But if, as some in this thread seem to suggest, that we just ignored Bin Laden and spend the money on somethiing else, he wouldn't of just gone away. The terrorists would of just kept coming back and continuing to hit us.