Why don't we stop blaming Bubba-1 as a excuse to cover for the screw-ups of Bubba-2? That makes as much sense as blaming bin Laden's mother for giving birth to him. In case you haven't noticed,Bubba-1 has been out of office for about a year and a half now,and all this happend during the reign of Bubba-2.
It is true that Bill Clinton isn't in power anymore and this isn't Clinton's war, but for eight years Clinton made no serious effort to counter the growing threat of terrorism. On the contrary, he emboldened the terrorists by responding to terrorist acts with political grandstanding in the form of missile strikes against aspirin factories in Sudan - more comic relief than deterrent. Even worse, he used our military and risked American lives to launch diversionary air strikes against Iraq during the impeachment vote in Congress. While the house was voting on each article of impeachment, CNN showed a split screen, with one side showing the bombing of Iraq. When Bin Laden's terrorists attacked the USS Cole on October 12, 2000, Clinton vowed to "leave no stone unturned" in hunting down the perpetrators. But in reality, he did nothing.
Clinton could have taken Bin Laden out after his involvement in the first WTC bombing, the bombing of the USS Cole and our embassies in Africa. Clinton refused to recognize that we were at war. And instead of crushing Bin Laden, Arafat and Hamas, Clinton forced the Israelis into the Oslo peace process, which legitimized the terrorists, provided them with billions of US aid dollars, and gave them an army with tens of thousands of weapons. So the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are the direct result of Clinton's negligence and weakness which put us in danger as a nation, and made these attacks possible.