Huh?

According to today’s online New York Times: “Congress and the American public must accept that the government cannot protect every possible target against attack if it wants to avoid fulfilling Al Qaeda’s goal of bankrupting the nation, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee Tuesday.

‘Osama bin Laden,’ Mr. Chertoff said, ‘has made it clear that scaring the United States into an unsustainable spending spree is one of his aims. In a 2004 video, Mr. bin Laden, the Qaeda leader, spoke of “bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.”’”

Huh? Mr. Chertoff, in case you haven’t noticed, he is already accomplishing his goal. It’s called pissing away billions and billions of dollars on an unjustified and unwinable “war” in Iraq that, despite Mr. Bush’s delusional scare-mongering, has almost nothing to do with the so-called War on Terror.