They seem to be doing that in Afganistan, as shown in the post. Your just kidding yourself if you think we are somehow protecting ourselves fighting what little al_queda is in Iraq. Al-Queda doesn't have to commit resources to Iraq, the fedayeen and al-Sadr militias are doing it for them. Even this guy Zaquawi is a home-grown guy leading an orignally Kurdish al-Queda unit that was operating against the US backed Kurds and Saddam both since 1991. Of course, everytime a roadside bomb planted by a sheep farmer blows up, our propaganda machine will blame it on al-Queda for the American home audiences consumption, but in actuality al-queda is busy at work in the rest of the world on their next five plan that will result in large scale devestation in the US. That's the stated purpose of the organization. Just because the president claims we are tying down al_queda, or "fighting them in Bagdad before we have to fight them in New York" doesn't make it so. Given his track record for predicting the intentions and capabilities of the Iraqis, I wouldn't count on him being right here. Anyone who takes the time to read the newspaper can see our troops in Iraq have more to fear from the local sheep farmer than they do from Bin Laden.