It took me a while to understand your analogy there Kingy cause I thought we were talking about Rove. Ok, now I see it as an analogy intended to explain why we went into Iraq instead of going after Osama.

Your analogy fails for me, so I will adjust it slightly to better reflect the situation as I see it...keep in mind i was there living and working in the shadows of the wtc when it was bombed.

To use your analogy as a base:
Imagine if you will that a level three sex offender rapes and kills your children on your front porch while you watch helplessly.(sorry but that is what osama did to me and NYC and america, he wasnt just planning to attack he did, and with deadly success). Your Boss just happens to be friends with this guys family, but nonetheless promises to bring him to justice "dead or alive".
Now suppose there is another level three sex offender in the neighborhood next door.
Do you tell the police, please stop looking for the person who killed and raped my children on my own doorstep and go get this other guy who might be planning to rape my children from a million miles away with a fictitious dick instead?

Your Boss thinks its a great idea and says he never gives your childrens murderer much thought. He basically lays off the police looking for your childs murderer then hires his buddys company with your tax dollars to go look for a potential molestor three neighborhoods down instead despite his promises.

If you say anything about it, your neighbors accuse you of loving sex molestors.

Meanwhile the graves of your raped and murdered children haunt you daily, as more graves fill up with your neighbors children searching for the molestor three neighborhoods away who may or may not have attacked your kids, while the one who DID attack your kids laughs.