Reply #9: No, Karl

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Obama successfully used the tools that Bush used that the Clinton Administration (via Richard Clarke, Sandy Berger, et. al) recommended Bush use PRIOR to 9/11. Bush didn't utilize any of those tools until AFTER 3000 people died on 09/11/01 and then he ended up basically giving up on finding Bin Laden circa 2002-2003 when he got bored of Afghanistan/Bin Laden and went on a tangent against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Bush and Cheney also added their own "tools" to the toolbox, which just ended up making things a lot worse for our campaign against terrorism (i.e. Gitmo, torture).