I do always find it funny that libs love to blame Bush for what he left Obama but none of them ever blame Clinton for what he left Bush. I mean Al Qaida was flying fucking planes into buildings less then 8 months after Bush was inaugurated. Did they all of a sudden get mad at us in January of 2001?
I'm starting to think there is some bias on this board.
Almost a fair point, but perhaps you should read Richard Clarke's book "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror." Clarke worked under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. When Bush/Cheney took over, Clarke tried for (eight) months to hold a number of meetings on terrorism because he saw it as a serious threat that the administration needed to pay attention to. They repeatedly and consistently gave him the brush off because they simply were not interested in terrorism. They did not think it was important and refused to listen to his increasingly dire overtures. Even when Condi read the memo "Bin Ladin determined to strike in the United States" they all dismissed it is not a high priority. After ignoring him for 8 months 9/11 blew up in their face and immediately the Bush team were suddenly interested in, and experts on, terrorism.
Stung by their obvious failures, the Bush/Cheney team turned to their familiar playbook of avoiding responsibility and attacking anyone who called them out: Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson, even their own Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, once he refused to play along. As he left the administration, he was quoted as saying, "I'm too old to start lying now..."
Even as the poorly planned and totally unnecessary was was falling apart, they doubled down on endorsing Rumsfeld for years even as his own generals called for his termination! Paul Wolfowitz literally lost $8 billion dollars in U.S. cash that was sent over to Iraq and dismissed it as "we didn't have Western-style accounting standards over there..." Perhaps you'd be interested in another well respected book "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005." I could go on and on....
Were you around and paying attention during all this... or do you think it was just all liberal bias?