robo -

They could have done a lot more before the war in order to forestall this kind of activity. I think this points out that Bush was not just an evil vicious f*k but a STUPID evil vicious f*k. And he had the rest of his people so cowed or ignorant that they had no way to deal effectively with the outside world. They had it coming.

This is exactly how most of the world views American Intelligence at this time.