I know that time will come for the public to begin acknowleging his accomplishments...I'm hoping it will be this 10th anniversary that does the trick.
Without his leadership (imagine algor! Yikes!!), you're right. We'd still be scared.
I said on another thread that President Bush was a victim of his own success. He did such an amazing job of protecting us from evil that people forgot the threat that was there every day of his Presidency.