Take away 9/11 and Bush becomes the least-liked President since Jimmy Carter.

Submitted by KL (United States), Aug 4, 2005 at 22:09

Actually the exact opposite might just as well be true. See without 911 there is no Afgan invasion and most probable no Iraq invasion either. Before the invasion we were looking at continued buget surplus and with the economy kicking in after the 2000 market fall there is good possiblity Bush could have won just on the merits of domestic acheivement. Unfortunately yours nor my beliefs can be validated because 911 did take place.

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