You CAN'T possibly be serious.

REPUBLICANS built up the Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan. I saw back in the Reagan era that SOMEDAY those weapons we gave them would be turned on us. Clinton was the FIRST president to try and take out bin Laden and to stop al-Qaeda. You are ignoring MANY facts, including:

1. Clinton was so focused on al-Qaeda that REPUBLICANS called him "obsessed,"

2. Clinton ordered missle attacks that came very close to taking out bin Laden, hitting the location he had JUST vacated,

3. Clinton stopped the Millenium attacks,

4. Clinton did his damnedest to cut off international funding for al-Qaeda, something that was just about negotiated by the end of his Presidency...BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS NIXED it.

5. Clinton wanted to stabilize Somalia and had 90% of the nation stabilized. But Republicans didn't have the guts or forsight to BACK their President in wartime, so we abandoned Somlia to warlords and al-Qaeda linked fundamentalists allowing it to become one of al-Qaeda's number one bases.

By comparison, Bush IGNORED a memo warning of the attacks, pulled our troops out when we had bin Laden cornered, is buddies with Saudi Arabia, a major source of funding for terrorists including al-Qaeda, refuses to do what it would take to cut off funding for terrorists, focuses on Iraq rather than fighting the people who actually attacked us, letting al-Qaeda get away with killing Americans on American soil, Bush did NOTHING when Israel and Palestine were in limbo between war and peace and allowed chaos to begin again, Bush did NOTHING to help stabilize Somalia, allowing it to fall to fundamentalists.

Bush fucking did NOTHING but sit in terror and paralyzed with uncertainty as America was attacked. Bush lied to shift the war from fighting those who attacked us to those who had nothing to do with attacking us. Bush lied to get us into a war that has now killed 3000 American soldiers FOR NOTHING.

Had Bush followed Clinton's lead there is a good chance 9/11 would never have happened, bin Laden would be dead, and though Hussein would still be alive, he would also still be contained.

You clearly have no understanding of the Palestine/Israel issue whatsoever. You display considerable ignorance. Jerusalem is no more or less "overrun with Muslims" than it was when I visited...or, for that matter, than it was for centuries. What has changed is that there was NO LEADERSHIP from the US through any period of the Bush presidency. The only time progress was made in Israel/Palestine was under Democratic presidents. Under Carter peace was achieved between Egypt and Israel, a LASTING peace. Under Clinton peace was nearly achieved between Israel and Palestine. Bush had no clue how to follow up. Nothing happened for years. Bush sat on his sorry, lazy ass as things slid back into chaos.

Name one single thing that Bush has done that has benefitted America in any way. He has led America to the largest deficits EVER, through the rock bottom job growth rate, through a period of essentially stagflation, though few have used that word, through a period where we can't even deal with a rag-assed bunch of terrorists who we had cornered and whose largest funding sources we know, and has quite simply done nothing of any worth whatsoever.

And what does he STAND FOR again? Pissing on police cars? Going AWOL? Sitting in utter terror and letting the mayor of NYC lead the nation in a crisis? Sitting on vacation and laughing it up with John McCain while Americans drown in New Orleans? He is a poster boy for drunken frat-boy losers whose daddies bail them out of everything. He ran an oil company to bankruptcy in Texas. He has done nothing of value during his entire life.

And yet he is your hero? Give me a break. You are either joking or you are one of the biggest fools...you might fall into Lincoln's category of "fooling some of the people all of the time."