Another Reminder of Bush's Failure in "The War on Terror"

Bush won't say his name, despite promising almost three years ago that we'd "smoke him out of his hole" and get him "dead or alive." But, through his number two, Osama bin Laden continues to poke his finger in America's eye, taunting us and enthusing his followers.

For the second year in a row, al-Qaida released a video tape rallying its supporters near the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and experts were investigating if the images of the terror network's No. 2 leader were new or not.

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"The defeat of America in Iraq and Afghanistan has become a matter of time, with God's help," al-Zawahri said on the tape. "The Americans in both countries are between two fires, if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything."