thats the best you can do?

well at least you dont disagree that if someone punches you in the face you dont hit the guy standing next to them, just in case he was planning on hitting you too.

Sayng "I dont think about him much" and diverting the troops and funds from osama to Iraq does amount to a laying off to me, yes.

and as for halliburton allow me to adjust my analogy then thusly:
Your Boss thinks its a great idea, so he lays off the police looking for your childs murderer, reassigns them to look for the guy three neighborhoods over who may or may not be planning on molesting your children, and hires his buddy who is a known crook to clean up the unholy mess they make in the process using your tax dollars.

This other guy three neighborhoods over? Even tho he hasnt raped your children yet, and that other guy we dont give much thought to did, this guy has a really big aids infested dick, so if he DOES ever decide to rape your children its really gonna hurt. Your boss then sends a dozen doctors to check this potential molestor for aids to prove to you that you'd better get him instead of the guy that acually raped your kids. When they come back to your Boss and tell him there's no aids, he and his assistants try to destroy the doctors by revealing their wives are undercover CIA operatives. (had to bring the analogy back on topic )