What's interesting is there is a grain of truth to this thread. Al-Queda may well not exist as an organization per se, in the sense of Terror, Inc., with Osama as CEO. But it may very likely be more like McDonalds--franchises all over the world--only tenuously tied to the parent organization. So for all the brouhaha about capturing Osama (at least soon after 11 Sept 2001), capturing him would probably have little effect on Al-Queda--certainly not, as in Bush's fondest dreams, "winning the war" on terror, which by definition will never be won--there will always be terror.

Declaring war on terror, while absurd on its face, is of course eminently useful for the Bush regime, since they can declare any restriction of rights to be "necessary" for the war on terror. From that perspective, they'll be perfectly happy if the "war on terror" goes on forever--which of course it will.