SouthKnoxBubba.net has a great post documenting Clinton's words and actions about fighting terrorism, and Bush's lack thereof. A sample:
Clinton's letter to Congress on the 4th of July, 1999, warning that "the actions and policies of the Afghan Taliban pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States" because they were hosting bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
Clinton's appearance on PBS's Newshour in January 2000, when he said that even though everyone kept talking about missile defense, the real threat was from "the likelihood that you'll have terrorists and narcotraffickers and organized criminals cooperating with each other, with smaller and smaller and more difficult to detect weapons of mass destruction..."
Clinton's letter to Congress in January 2001 as he was leaving, when he mentioned — yes! — that Osama dude again.
Bush, on the other hand, did some significant faffing when he got into office.
Could Clinton have done more? Yep. But at least he didn't waste time getting into a war that seems to be serving little purpose as far as international stability or national security are concerned and trying to pass it off as part of a "War on Terror."
(And for some reason, the Bush administration is suddenly awfully concerned about producing Clinton's records...)
