I am bothered that it was not done on 9-12-2001. I am also bothered by the fact that it was not done on 9-12-2000, or 99, or 98 etc.  Osama Bin Laden had declared war on the United States already, and we should have been moving on it then.

You seem to forget that time when Clinton did retaliate the cry from the republican side was " when you want to divert attention from your personal problems, start a war."

You seem to be leaving out the fact that we did invade afghanistan following 9-11, and that most of the people who opposed the war in Iraq opposed that as well.

This is just not true.