Reply #7: Everyone made mistakes...

[Imajika]

...even the Clinton administration.

There is no point wasting time trying to defend every single thing the Clinton administration did.

The Clinton team should have taken bin Laden far more seriously. The Bush administration was even worse. We don't have to defend everything Clinton did or did not do in order to attack Bush's record. Clinton is not running for President, Bush is.

"A Democratic member of the 9/11 commission says there was a larger issue: The Clinton administration treated bin Laden as a law enforcement problem."

I agree with this, and it is a real story and there is nothing wrong with MSNBC writing about it.

Islamic militancy is a problem far beyond a simple law enforcement matter, and this was also true in the 1990's.

"One Clinton Cabinet official said, looking back, the military should have been more involved, 'We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there.'"

Pretty much nobody did.

The question is what do you do going forward. Since 9-11 has Bush made us safer? No. Since 9-11 has Bush done enough to make sure a WTC event doesn't happen again? No. Could Kerry do a better job coordinating with our allies, going after the actual terrorists and protecting the "homeland"? Yes.

Imajika