And, ddw, given the high level of hatred and mistrust of the Bush family in general by the Arab world, there's a good chance that 9/11 wouldn't have occured under a Gore watch.

And keep in mind that Bush purdt much turned his back on the Middle East, especially the Isreali/Palistinian situation adding evn more fuel on the fires of hatered and mistrust.

Yes, Bush very much created an atmosphere where a 9/11 could occur.

And I now find it very curious that there is so much sand-bagging and foot-dreagging on the Part of the Bush asministration to investigate 9/11. Let a danged airliner crash off the New England coast and divers find every danged nut and bolt to it and assemble it in a hanger to see what made it crash. Let a bunch of Saudi's highjack 4 airplanes and kill over 3000 Americans and other than using the incident as a PR bat to beat a bunch of right winged crap thru congress, like no one in the Bush adminstration cares much why or how it happened? Go figure?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Bush did respond by adopting a foreign policy that was written by Paul Worfowitz and Richard Perle back in 1992 and whacked Iraq, a country that had absolutley nothing to do with 9/11. Yeah, that oughtta improve his popularity in the Arab world. Not!

Bobert