Reply #117: depraved indifference. [View All]

I believe that the Bush administration had more than enough evidence to take better action in preventing the 9/11 attack, if they had taken it seriously, and I believe that there was more than enough time on the day of 9/11 to significantly minimize the ammount of deaths/damage the occured if the administration had taken it seriously. I believe the reason they did not take it seriously is becuase they were so preoccupied with their own agenda (namely Iraq and tax cuts) that they didn't give a damn about anything else. What's more, I personally believe that their own ideology about the need for the United States to become more militarized meant that they really didn't care as much as they should if a terrorist attack did happen on US soil. I believe they knew full well that if there was an attack they would have the 90% approval rating to get away with just about anything they wanted.

So its not that I think they met in rooms and secretly planned to allow (or make) 9/11 happen. But I do believe they didn't care, and didn't care to a point of depraved recklessness. That's my own feeling on the matter.