9/11/01 could have easily been prevented with airline security, period. Locking cockpit doors. How might our leaders have known that a highjacking might have been planned? Simple. A guy named Zacherias Musomething, (the so-called 20th highjacker), was arrested shortly before 9/11 after suspicions were risen when he attended flight school and wasn't interested in landing or take-off procedures. One of his instructors found this strange and alerted a friend who was a retired FBI agent. My father, (a retired judge in Mpls., MN.), knows the agent. This is old hat info at this point.
A quick primer on terrorism: Our multi-zillion dollar defense budget and the proposed starwars missile defense system couldn't stop a bunch of Akbars w/ box-cutters. Real intelligence, in both senses of the word, could have. And we were already paying for it. The invasion of Iraq's relation to terrorism is that it will increase it. And it has cost a lot, more than can be calculated. Trusting that GW Bush knows more than anyone in the country about how to make the world safe? You're kidding, right? Turn on your TV or read a paper. Even if you discount half the news, he's a dishonest scumbag who has done zip/nada to make anyone safer. Richer, yes. Not safer.
