text: Because you can't terrorize America if the Boogeyman is dead.  The fear card has been Bush's best play since 9-11.  Without it, much of his rollbacks on civil liberties, detainments, and war-mongering would have been met with too much opposition.\n\nOdds are good that Osama is tilling out a quiet life in Crawford, Texas, helping Laura plant flowers and keeping the barbecue pit cleaned out.