[MEGoody]

"The country was just not in the right place for that kind of action back then. We were in our fat-dumb-and-happy phase"

I have to agree. If either Clinton or Bush had taken any significant steps to defeat terrorists, e.g. boots on the ground, the majority of the American people would have been screaming their heads off.

[kitkat]

***If either Clinton or Bush had taken any significant steps to defeat terrorists, e.g. boots on the ground, the majority of the American people would have been screaming their heads off.***

Pres. Bush spent fourteen months (14) before the U.N. trying to get them to give approval to attack Iraq. Germany and France fought it all the way. Even now, the dems are calling it a "unilateral" action. (I just heard Kerry on radio saying that.)

But remember, we were attacked during Clinton's reign of terror, i.e. the Cole, the 1993 attack on the WTC, our foreign embassies. If an attack against us was necessary to get the American people behind a presidential action against the terrorists, then Clinton should have acted, and DID NOT. As Bush said during his run for the presidency, "THEY HAVE NOT LED. WE WILL." And he has.