Iraq — is it frontline or just a sideshow?

IN all the uproar over Richard Clarke’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission, I think we’re missing the larger issue. The focus now is all on whether the Bush administration focused on the terror threat prior to the attacks on 9/11.

But in his own words as quoted in Bob Woodward's book, Bush at War George W Bush did not feel a "sense of urgency" about terrorism at the time prior to 9/11.

The world has changed since then, but the real question is what has been done in the meantime to make us safer? Was Iraq the main front in the war on terrorism? Or was it a needless sideshow that diverted attention and resources away from our true enemy.