I would have CHEERED if Bush had captured/killed Bin Laden in 2001.

I was only 19 when September 11th happened, and although I had voted for Gore the previous year, I was so damn frightened that partisan politics didn't even occur to me. In fact, I was confident that he WOULD be caught--it just didn't occur to me that the most powerful country in the world could fail to eliminate a single foe. Of course, suddenly the national conversation switched from Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein, and although I was smart enough to recognize Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, a lot of my college classmates went along with it. "Bush is a good man," I remember one said. You know how history went from there.

Republicans like to rewrite history and pretend that anyone left of center was rooting for Bush to fail from day 1, but it just isn't true. When it came to crippling Al Qaeda, many of us liberals were hoping for success that not only never came, but became an even bigger mess than ever. So if a Republican asks me (as many here have already been asked) "How would you be reacting right now if Bush was President?" I would respond "I'd be happy, of course, but that doesn't change the fact that Bush ISN'T President. The guy YOU wanted to fail from Day 1 IS."

They think "the greater good" means seconds. And so on. lol