We snapped into action, and bombed a country that had nothing to do with it, had no weapons of mass destruction, did not harbor any terrorists (because they hated Saddam). No haven't forgotten, its a pretty horrible track record.
Good question, though. Now, we're being told that "they're (our troops) are fighting over there, so we don't have to over here". Think about that for a minute, and then think about 25 million illegal aliens wandering into and out of this country, like the USA is Mexico's back porch. Then think about how incredibly well protected our country is (NOT). Its not due to the troops themselves, of coures, they're doing a great job.
Its a bunch of very creepy people, with hooks into companies that make the lions share of $13 billion dollars *a month* on the occupation of Iraq. Then talk about how we're so well prepared for a terrorist attack.
Not only could we not prevent it, its so incredibly easy to do considering the complete disregard for protecting our borders and filtering out illegal aliens, that our government has become quite poor at.