What were you, like 8 when Clinton took office? Which made you approx 16 when Bush took over. So where in that 8 years did you even have a clue as to what was going on? But you cannot be blamed for you ignorance, you were/are just a kid. Like I said before, brainwashed by the Liberal media.
By better 8 years ago, you mean the Inaction by the Clinton Administration. So we weren't in a major conflict/war. There was still Kosovo and Somalia (Blackhawk Down?). Was that wrong to send US troops over there to "Police the World"? But you are running Bush thru the ringer for doing it today. What exactly did the Clinton Admin do when the Kobar Towers were bombed? Or Uss Cole? Nothing. Sent a few Tomahawks downrange to show that he cared. What happened during those "Golden 8 years" that you are refering to, Terrorism was allowed to fester and build. The planning of 9/11 was allowed to happen. Now we, as in the men and women in uniform, are dealing with it. The American public is also suffering from it. Now, instead of dealing with the threat over the past 15 years (the money involved with campains of this magnatude), we are doing it in 7.
If you had a clue, if you knew anything about a presidency and how things actually worked, you would know that...the current situation is a direct reflection of how it was left by the last administration. Always. It takes time to make changes and do good. If the last administration had put a little more effort to fighting terror, rather getting BJ's in the ovalloffice and trying to take away our guns, we wouldn't be in as bad a perdicament.