Basically, the president botched the response to 9/11. He should have gone right after Afghanistan, right after bin Laden and then he made the whole war on terrorism so much worse by invading Iraq.
Richard Clarke criticizes President Bush's handling of the response to the September 11 attacks and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.
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