>i>"One thing I will say is that it is impossible to say whether 9-11 would still have happened had Bush lost the election" - Steve Shaw

The 9/11 attacks had SFA to do with the 2000 Presidential election - You in the above statement seem to suggest that the two things were linked somehow and that the deciding factor that you find impossible to make a statement on depended upon who won or lost that election. Operational planning for the 9/11 attacks were two years old before the Presidential Candidates were nominated for election by their respective political parties. After the revised plan was approved it was a racing certainty that the attack would be made - no degree of doubt whatsoever - No misrepresentation there at all.

So OK I've asked once I will ask again why do you suggest different outcomes were a possibility had the result of the election been other than it was?