MEM, I've already acknowledged in many topics that Bush also shares blame for not reacting to the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Yemen. But the simple fact is that Clinton was still President during the three critical months after the Cole bombing, where a response was most needed.
Clinton waived action to the Cole bombing, to pursue a later-proven-ineffective Middle East peace plan. Waiving retaliation against the advice of the Joint Chiefs, Richard Clark, and other Clinton advisors. And while the Road to 9-11 drama doesn't portray these events verbatim as the conversations occurred in the Oval Office, they accurately depict the basic events.
Regarduing your second point about the bad old Republicans shooting down an anti-terrorism bill that Clinton allegedly pursued, that would have made the nation safe if passed:
Clinton did virtually nothing to secure the nation after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Clinton deployed a military force in a gesture of power in Somalia, but so thin a force they couldn't even back up the army rangers who were ambushed and killed in Mogadishu, and then Clinton cut and ran.
Clinton didn't make any move to contain terrorism after the Khobar Towers bombing in 1995.
After the Kenya and Tanzania bombings, Clinton only lobbed a few missiles at camps in Sudan and Afghanistan, in a minimal token gesture of Clinton military toughness, even as the generals urged Clinton that he needed to deploy troops to do the job right. As a result Al Qaida survived and grew, and gained global prestige.
Clinton also did nothing to stand up to Saddam Hussein, when Hussein wouldn't cooperate with U.N. inspectors, and when Hussein finally threw the inspectors out of Iraq entirely in 1998.
Clinton also blew several opportunities where the Sudanese and Saudi governments were prepared to hand over Bin Ladin to the U.S.
And simultaneously, Clinton signed an agreement in 1994 with North Korea that would provide that nation with a billion dollars a year in free energy, but required no nuclear inspections, that gave N. Korea 10 years to secretly develop nuclear weapons and the missiles to carry them.
And yet Clinton was going to pursue tough legislation on terrorism? Based on 8 years of Clinton action (i.e. inaction) I seriously doubt it.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
