Obvious failure- the guy wasn't caught. Whether he is alive or dead is something I do not know. I don't think that too many people in America were upset when we went in to Afghanistan because of 9-11, he was there, and because The Taliban was so sinister. This should have been the top priority. It's one thing to go there and fail to capture or wipe out Al-Qaeda, it's another to then rush into Iraq without sufficient cause.Look, it's a great thing that Saddam's gone, the guy was a foul tyrant- good riddance. But, we're in there not because of weapons of mass destruction. It's not because of ties to Bin Laden. What the powerful want the powerful get. Oil's a part of this, a big part. I don't even think anyone but an absolute diehard, makes the John Birch Society look like Che Guevara, off their rocker right- winger could honestly look someone in the eye and say we're in this to spread democracy to the Iraqis. Democracy? They've never had it there.I don't think, for the most part, they even want it, it is inimical to the experience, beliefs, and viewpoints of many in that part of the world. Absolute, 100% democracy doesn't even exist here, nor in Britain, nor in Japan...nowhere- never mind in these parts of the world. It's a nice ideal, but nothing, no political system, good, bad, or indifferent, is exactly what it says it is. We're still there even though the majority of the public wants out.How much of this Bush could have prevented is something that I don't know, but there's no way for him to come out of this smelling like roses.