And you don't know that it wasn't 'reasonably doable'. It is not my responsibility to offer this proof, I said there was not enough emphasis on it if Iraq became focus. I saw this as indisputable, you don't. It's obvious that attempts to make it 'reasonably doable' would have had more of a chance without the gigantic adventure of Iraq.

And you also don't know that this would have been 'sweet to Bush.' Otherwise, he wouldn't have lost interest as early as 2002, when he began the propaganda to concentrate on Iraq.

You've now said 'no one knows where the man is.' Yes, but they do know that his disciples and many of them are in that area of Waziristan, otherwise there wouldn't be any CIA clandestine activity going on there, there wouldn't be any continued discussion of them vis-a-vis the Pakistani Govt. itself, there would have been no damning NIE report. It just isn't politically expedient to bother with him anymore, but he was very useful to Bush every time a new tape came in, and the Orange Alerts were used until Bush won the 2004 election, and he then did not wait even 3 weeks before saying that 'these were no longer needed' because the 'terrorist threat' was no longer serious (apparently due to election results.)