By his own standard, Mr. Bush achieved the one big thing he and all Americans demanded of his Administration. Not a single man, woman or child has been killed by terrorists on U.S. soil since the morning of September 11. Al Qaeda was flushed from safe havens in Afghanistan, then Iraq, and its terrorist network put under siege around the world. All subsequent terror attacks hit soft targets and used primitive means. No one seriously predicted such an outcome at the time.
Pesky reality:
The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.
Of course, that's leaving aside the fact that the Bush administration is responsible for allowing the most devastating terrorist attacks on our shores in our history and the greatest failure do defend these shores since the War of Canadian Aggression in 1812. I suppose what his supporters want credit for is that we didn't suffer a second cataclysmic attack after 2001. Somewhere along the line, the original goals of capturing OBL or isolating Islamic fundamentalism fell by the wayside and the triumphant success became the avoidance of a second 9/11.
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