"They had eight months to get bin'Laden."
"They", the Bush team, had less than a month to get transition plans to begin the new adminisration, because your buttboy, Gore, and you teamed up to steal an election. Your cabal, Bubbaboy, screwed the pooch in everything and every way to hinder the new administration, and yet in eight YEARS you only managed to kill a bunch of religious fanatics, a little boy and his mother and a stud doing your old lady.
Relax Bubbaboy....grab a baggie and snort some blow and chill out. Or, you could go vein popping some more and do the world a favor by going apoplectic and assuming room temperature.
Not to mention, there is no record of Bush ever having passed up a chance to nail Bin Laden when he had the chance, unlike at least half a dozen such opportunities Bill Clinton let pass. After the Cole bombing, Bin Laden largely went to ground and there were no opportunities to get Bin Laden at the point Bush took office.
Also, had Bush taken office and started bombing Afghanistan, Dems. would have called him a "warmonger," "a cowboy" and "trigger happy gunslinger." They would have accused him of wagging the dog to establish legitimacy for his "stolen election." No president comes into office and starts firing off the military.