my personal stance?
hindsight rawks!
i think its pretty stupid to think that the gubment didnt do more in preperation.
think of the reverse... what would happen if bush spent millions, during the month of august, souping up a defense... he'd be criticized for wasting money!
(which more or less happened. the US was in the process, last summer, of building up a huge lot of money and a huge defense system from foreign attack, and they were taking HEAVY criticism because of it).
further more... even if bush received an email from osama (..um.. make that regular mail) stating "dear georgie... we're coming to kill you, on september 11th, via airplanes we'll hijack" .... what the fuck are we supposed to do?
wouldnt the "logical" step be to bring the whole army to washington dc? ground all flights within 50 miles of the whitehouse?
fine.
so now, for a month, the gubment would be criticised for wasting money n'effort on protecting washington.
then, the twin towers would STILL be destroyed.
so then the gubment would be criticised for "protecting themselves, and not the people."
its a lose-lose situation.
