"late unlamented Teribus....Ake"

The rumours of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

As for Bin Laden being dead or alive? The issue is irrelevant and has been since he was forced into hiding four years ago.

As for Iraq, people like Ake refuse to acknowledge that it was NOT GWB, or his administration, who identified Iraq as being likely to pose the greatest indirect threat to the US. That was the evaluation carried out by US Intelligence Services during the last term of the Clinton Administration. Post 9/11 it was the joint house security committee tasked with evaluating threat potential against the US that re-afirmed that earlier evaluation. On receiving the advice of this Committee, did GWB immediately opt for unilateral military action, as Clinton did in 1998? No he did not he took his case to the United Nations, who did what they do best - Nothing (Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur - all classic examples of UN resolve and determination). Current UN mandated operations in Afghanistan and in Iraq are both legal and necessary.

Have terrorist attacks around the world increased or decreased? Sorry Ake, they have decreased.

Is the world a safer place to live in? The findings of a UN sponsored study by Uppsala and Vancouver Universities show that the world is a safer place to live the periods used for comparison were from the end of the Second World War up until the collapse of Communist Soviet Russia and the period since.

Ake continues to trot out the same inaccurate, incorrect and ill informed twaddle that I have challenged in the past - Having done so, I see no need in repeating the exercise.