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Re: Cheney On Benghazi
I don't particularly begrudge the Bush Administration for 9/11, or Obama for Benghazi, pending revelations which could come, because there are people who want to kill us, and they're going to succeed sometimes. we can't be perfect. But the "Bush kept us safe" meme drives me nuts. Almost 3,000 died on his watch, and thousands more Americans died in the war that he chose to start and mismanaged.
So if that's your standard, he failed, certainly compared to Obama.
Also, it isn't true that terrorism in the US stopped between 9/11 and the end of Bush's tenure. The anthrax attacks killed people. The Egyptian dude who shot up the Israeli airline ticket counter killed someone, if memory serves. The Beltway snipers killed people. Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured six and could've easily killed someone during his attack by SUV. Naveed Afzal Haq killed someone at the Seattle Jewish Federation. So other terrorists did in fact "reach their targets."