[Victoria Delsoul]

The war in Afghanistan caught al Qaeda's leaders off guard. Bin Laden's top people were convinced the United States would respond to 9/11 with merely a volley of cruise missiles, interrogations later showed. By late 2001, the U.S.-led assault had taken out al Qaeda's camps and headquarters, killed hundreds of its followers, and driven the Taliban from power. So rapid was the advance that bin Laden's operatives left behind a motherlode of intelligence--address books, videos, computers, and more. Nearly 100 places yielded valuable intelligence, from caves to training centers. Among the key finds: rosters of trainees at al Qaeda facilities, which gave the CIA a handle on the tens of thousands of jihadists who had passed through some 50 camps across Afghanistan

Good thing that GW ain't Clinton. Clinton weakened our national security and we lived too long under a false sense of security. As a matter of fact, the terrorists grew increasingly defiant under the Clinton administration.

[My2Cents]

I thank God every day that George W. Bush is President, and not that other guy. The Clinton scandals will continue to be uncovered from here until the end of our days. It astounds me, watching "Hannity and Colmes" last night for example, that people (e.g., Colmes and Geraldine Ferraro) can sit before a TV camera and with a straight face call Bill Clinton a "great President."