This is really funny. Although the Bush Administration does deserve strict criticism, what makes you think it would have been so much better with a leftist alternative?

Clinton virtually ignored terrorism. In fact, his administration's policies are precisely the reason 9/11 happened in the first place. And even an idiot knew that government takeovers and concentrations of security orgs does not automatically mean security checkpoints are airtight.

"Then the idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this and every country but his own"
Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado