While the CIA certainly bears a degree of blame, my true feelings of blame are towards the overall government attitude towards our enemies, illegal immigration, and the belief that it is better to be loved than feared.
The 9/11 report clearly documented the failures of our government to know what is going on. To think that the gov't spends billions on intel and did not have one spy deep in Iraq or Al Queada is maddness.
If GWB refuses to enforce immigration laws and refuses to make getting drivers' licenses harder to illegals and terrorists, we will be hit again, and we will say the same of him that we do Clinton.
Senate & Congress? I could not think of a more feckless bunch of do nothings and chicken littles. They too should be roundly blamed for their refusal to do the job.
We have to decide whether to don the mantle of the world's superpower, with all that implies, (few real friends and many enemies), or to pass. No PC nonsense about whether pink panties on a prisoner's head insults his cultural identity worse than being put through Saddam's shredder. (I got that argument from my expensively Cambridge educated psychologist fool of a son, now happily residing in New Zealand. You should have seen his emails about Bush's reelection. Horror of horrors! Eeeek!!! What was he to say at cocktail parties? I kid you not. That's just what he said.)