Sometimes it’s very easy to believe that Bush is not serious at all in his proclaimed “war on terror”. Why? Because Bush recently admitted that his campaign for re-election was aided by Osama bin Laden. Bush’s use of bin Laden as a political tool are more apparent every day that the “9/11 mastermind” remains at large. Bin Laden has become a name to be trotted out for fearmongering and manipulation of the American people when it suits the administration. And before the right-wingers read this and think that I’m some terror apologist, let’s review the basic facts: America had bin Laden in its grasp after toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan, but chose to focus on taking out Saddam instead, leaving the leader of the most notorious terrorist group in the world at large. The 140,000 soldiers playing referee in the upcoming Iraqi Civil War would have found Osama bin Laden by now if they weren’t in the wrong country. So the question is, after Bush has admitted using bin Laden to further his own political aims, how much longer are Americans going to sit and take this?