[jkarolyi]

>But I would think thanking Bush would over-simplify that result.

I thanked the Republican Congress, Patriot act, and Homeland Security as well.

>how many terrorist attacks within the U.S. have been thwarted since 9/11, Bush's war on terror and the Patriot Act.

I'd like to know that too, but that's probably classified info. Let's argue theoretically that none of Bush & Co.'s measures have worked. What attributed to this remarkable absence of terrorist attacks here?