Whenever President Bush or anyone in his administration is asked anything about possible failures on their part in terms of preventing 9/11, they say, in more words or less:"If we had known that planes were going to be hijacked and flown into buildings in New York and Washington on the morning of September 11, 2001, we would have done everything we could to stop it."
Well, that's good to hear, Mr. Bush, I'm glad to hear that. The problem is that warning signs of immenent attack by terrorists are not handed to us on silver platters and spelled out in Texas slang for your leisurely perusal. We would hope that in that case you, as President of the U. S., would indeed have done everything you could to stop it. But since that's not the real world, why were the dots not connected? I know, it's the intelligence agencies' fault. That happens to be the same answer you gave for why you insisted that there was WMD in Iraq and now you are the laughingstock of the entire world. But the President is supposed to be the one who is ultimately responsible for intelligence and for decisions to go to war. Now we see that that is only true when things go well. When things go awry, it's everyone else's fault.