Yes, I think 9/11 would probably have happened no matter who was President. Planning for that was in the works for years, and although Clinton (and presumably, a President Gore) seemed more aware of the Al-Quaeda danger, it is unlikely that the possibility of such an enormous attack would have been any more obvious to them than to Mr Bush. At most, Gore might have lobbed a few more Tomahawks at some Al-Quaeda training camps, like Clinton did, but even that would have required much more smoking-gun evidence of terrorist activity than seems to have been available. No, as much as I'd like to hang 9/11 on the Republicans, in all fairness, they were not to blame. Sometimes shit just happens.

Of course, in retrospect, both Reps and Dems could have done more, but its easy for me to say that with the benefit of hindsight, long after Monday morning.