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Pleze....gimme a break....If GW is guilty of letting 911 happen, Bill Clinton commited the act...For years the CIA and FBI were making warnings about AL Qaeda, it was obvious for anybody to see that something was going to be tried AGAIN sooner or later. For years Clinton ignored Al Oaeda, and then pussy footed around with them by shooting a few Cruise Missles in their direction only when he absolutely had to..why Public Opinion Polls showed it was the popular thing to do, everybody was riding a Good Times High...."The End of History" and all that rot. It was only at the end of his term in office that they got around to saying something substantial had to be done with Al Queda, and they decided for better or worse to let the Bush Administration take action rather than implement a plan that might become messy for an incoming administration. The Bush team was briefed by the Clinton Administration on AL Queda, but do to the number of decisions and details it takes to get an administration off the ground, the information fell through the cracks and was put on the back burner.

Quite understandably the Bush administration was preoccupied with other things in the first few months of the administration...like getting the cabinet appointees OK'ed by the Senate and all the other administration people in place. Getting the team to function smoothly as a team and up to speed. If you know our government and how it works 9 months isn't long...

Now let's deal with the interface between the administration and the Civil Service end of the government which the CIA and FBI are part of. Inept isn't the correct way to describe the American Governmental Bureaucracy...a better way to describe it is that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing...Our governmental Bureaucracy is so large and unwieldly it's like trying to change the course of the Titanic...if you push the rudder hard over it takes two miles and so many minutes for a change in course to be noticable....now make that years in the case of our government.

So there it is a New Administration that was preoccupied with getting itself up and running, a Governmental Bureaucracy where the threat of Al Queda wasn't a top priority due to the stance of the prior administration, and the fact that the Bureaucracy is so unwieldly that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing lend to 911 plot being able to slip through the cracks.

Now we know differently...that Al Queda poses enough of a threat to be able to bring the house of cards down around our ears...the economy is now just recovering from the effects of 911...Furthermore just the hint that some event in the world is the result of a Terrorist action is enough to send the Stock Markets of the World spirling downwards out of control. Just knowledge of the above fact should be enough to alert the most ill informed persons that drastic action is reaquired to ameloriate the situation.