"But, there has been no mention in this thread (I don't think there was) about the 100K+ innocent lives that have been lost in the retaliation against OBL and his evil deeds."

I would dearly love to know where this 100K+ innocent lives comes from. Even taking the highest estimated figures the total of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan comes to less than half that and as various NGOs and the UN have reported from Afghanistan 75% of civilian casualties have been caused by the Taleban and their allies.

Strictly speaking in Afghanistan since May 2006 there have been no lives lost in retaliation against Osama bin Laden as by then in Afghanistan the US-OEF mission was replaced by ISAF (Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are not even mentioned in the ISAF Mission Statement - In the summer of 2006 it was the Taleban from acros the border in Pakistan who declared war on ISAF's reconstruction effort, nothing to do with OBL)

Only in Pakistan are US-OEF attacks carried out primarily by drones where even the Pakistani authorities say that they are effective.

Iraq of course had absolutely nothing to do with Osama bin Laden.