Looks to me like 911 had to be in the works for a long time before Bush was ever elected, so I doubt it has anything to do with Bush, per se...except that he has since used it to launch two illegal wars, so it's proven convenient from the point of view of his advisors...Karl Rove, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and so on. They wanted a good excuse to set the US military loose in the World, and they got it.

Osama has also gotten what he wanted...the imminent (probable) destruction of Saddam's hated anti-religious Baath regime, the further driving of a wedge of hatred between Islamic peoples and the USA, the further cause for greater terrorism upon the USA and upon the Arabs and Israelis too. A holy war par excellence.

Pass the champagne for the Republican Deep Thinkers and Osama Bin Laden, the big winners of 911. Glasses all around.

- LH