True, and good point. He also might not have called off the Clinton plan left waiting on Bush's desk to hunt down Bin Laden in 2000 -- although I'm not sure that Osama's removal from the picture would have stopped the attacks from going ahead.

So perhaps I'll stick to the idea that Gore being in office wouldn't have stopped the attacks -- but I conceed that it might, possibly, have prevented its success.

9/11 was about attacking Bush...
Typo correction: 9/11 wasn't about attacking Bush...