I'm really starting to get pissed off about this:

The independent commission reviewing the [September 11th] attacks said in a preliminary report that in the years before the attacks the Clinton and Bush administrations chose to use diplomatic rather than military options, which allowed bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders to elude capture.

Wow -- slam Clinton for being a pussy and praise Bush for being measured in the same sentence.

Then there's the recent NBC hacking about the Clinton administration missing an opportunity to kill bin Laden:

The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why was no action taken against them?

“We were not prepared to take the military action necessary,” said retired Gen. Wayne Downing, who ran counter-terror efforts for the current Bush administration and is now an NBC analyst.

Here's the problem: Clinton did respond militarily. Has everyone forgotten that the US, under Clinton's orders, hit Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise missiles, trying to hit Al Qaeda in 1998? I guess the Clinton administration were using intelligence supplied by Agent 86: Missed him by that much. (Of course, the Bushies must have been using Agent 86, as well: "Would you believe Iraq is stockpiling, let's say, smallpox?")

I can't find any other blog which has made this same argument -- how can you criticize Clinton for not doing anything about bin Laden when he not only tried, he also had as much luck finding him as our current administration has? And while Clinton gathered intelligence on the Taliban, the Bush administration instead thought it wise to give them money.

Oh, the Clinton administration stopped several terrorist plots, too. Yeah, they were pussies.

The World Trade Center bombing, the USS Cole, and the US embassy bombings all happened under Clinton's watch, and all of those tragedies came from an enemy unknown to a country used to fighting the Cold War. And it seems that Clinton's team fought it as best as they could. It wasn't Clinton who dropped the ball.