At least they managed to keep us respected in the world (and thus not creating a rallying point for terrorists) and have a thriving economy. Yes, Clinton bears some responsibility for the Cole and embassy bombings. But George W. Bush bears responsibility for all attacks on our embassies and military personel in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as responsibility for doubling the national debt and the tanking economy. And he aslo didn't secure the cockpit doors. Nor did the FBI under Bush's watch investigate intelligence about people learning to fly commercial planes but not want to land (Colleen Rowley was a whistleblower about that).

Neither President was perfect but Clinton at least did some things well.

The bit about “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US? Came from TV interviews that Bin Laden had given in 1998; there was nothing new about this and indeed readers of Time Magazine got that scoop three years before 9-11.

And if you want to congratulate the Clinton administration on its diligence, you have to acknowledge that they did not secure the cockpit doors after hearing of the Bojinka plot, which included a plan to crash airplanes into buildings. You have to acknowledge that all of the hijacker pilots entered the country while Clinton was in office. And you have to acknowledge that they did not stop the Cole operation or the embassy bombings.

UNO: New Orleans economy bucks national recession
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The New Orleans metro area added 11,700 jobs in 2008 and will see 7,900 more positions added over the next two years, according to a University of New Orleans economic forecast.

Report author Janet Speyer said the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina will allow the area to weather the economic downturn that is expected to saddle the rest of the country. And since New Orleans stayed largely free of the risky mortgages burdening other real estate markets, our banking sector remains relatively robust, she said.

Construction, not surprisingly, was the strength of New Orleans’ job market, growing 6.2 percent over the year while the rest of the country saw a 5.9 percent decline in the sector.

New Orleans added 2,000 construction jobs in 2008; 1,500 in the hotel industry; 1,500 in food and beverage services; 1,100 in state government jobs, including public hospital workers and teachers; 800 in the professional/technical sector; and 800 in private hospitals.

New Orleans’ economy “is still on an upward path,” according to UNO, with population and jobs still moving upward. The recovery pressure is unlikely to stop in the near future, but its pace will slow, the report says.

I was just reading today about how a Bush political appointee at OSHA totally undermined the agency when an urgent warning came in about dental techs being exposed to a carcinogen in the workplace. The appointee had been pressured from lobbyists representing the source of the carcinogen– and despite the entire agency's protest, was able to derail it from taking action. This was in 2001— and nothing has been done about it to this day.

How would you like to be one of those dental techs???

B*sh is a war criminal and must be sent to The Hague to face justice.

What, exactly, do you base your contention that New Orleans is rebuilding to anything close to what it was prior to Katrina? And what I said about it being a dying city with a declining infrastructure, tax base and population, along with rampant corruption and an erosion of the Bourbon Street and music scenes is sadly true.

I have visited NO at least 6 – 8 times pre-Katrina, and twice now post-Katrina. I do not hate NO; I sued to love it. But its decay was obvious before Katrina, and the re-building, such as there is, is window dressing. It is sad, but true. The strategic need for the Port of New Orleans was gone years ago, and the downsides of NO outweigh the costs needed to fully rebuild.

Otherwise, as I said, businesses and people would be returning there in droves. And they are not.

Beginning with Prescott Bush and continuing down to George W, the documented damage inflicted upon the United States, its Constitution, and citizens by the Bush Crime Family is truly immeasurable.

And above all, don't live in a terminally corrupt city built below sea-level in-between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain. Your city was already a decaying, dying city living on strip joints, tourist rip-off spots, and a music scene that was more reputation than reality for many years. It was the Detroit of the South.

It hasn't been rebuilt not because the Federal Government doesn't care, but because business, local and national, along with the American people, as a whole, just don't care if it is.

As our values have changed our standards have risen. Most of us have higher expectations for 21st century presidents than those of previous eras in no small part because we expect them to have learned the follies of their predecessors.

For me, the saddest part of 9-11 was the friends, father in law and wife I lost that day.

I really cannot put GW Bush's legacy in the same category, nor should any person with a vestige of humanity.
Anyone who looks at 9-11 as merely a political situation is vile beyond words.