>But, aside from Clinton, US soil had not been attacked TILL his administration!
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>There's substantial evidence that 9/11 was due to how much Clinton/Gore wound up gutting U.S. security. during the '90's.
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>The media has had no issue in pounding on Bush....but Clinton and his administration didn't get half the kicking around they deserved (they were more interested in Wild Bill getting his knob shined)

Not sure Clinton/Gore can be blamed for 9/11. Actually, Clinton got kicked around quite a bit by everybody for Monica which is something that only his wife should have cared about.

Many things contributed to 9/11:

1. Loose sexual mores in the west which offended Islamic sensibilities. Porn in the internet is an example.
2. The existence of Israel on what was Palestine before 1948 and the continuing conflict there
3. The very core teachings of Islam which preach death to infidels

With the benefit of hindsight, I think Bush was correct in choosing to take the war to the enemy but wrong in believing that Saddam was more dangerous than Osama. I believe psychologists will conclude that Bush Jr. had a personal type problem with daddy's decision not to press on to Baghdad in 1991, but that history will judge daddy's choice was wise.

I think Bush Jr's most tragic weakness was his dogmatic type of thinking.