Pretty much.
Bush blew it due to his lack of experiance, his lackadasical attitude toward terrorism (his own words {Woodwards books} confirm that as do his actions...demoting anti-terrorism to deputy level when under Clinton it was Cabinet level, and his cutting of anti-terror funds by him and his cabinet time after time until 9/11, when he finally learned to take Al Qaeda seriously), and his stubborness which blinded him towards anything thought up outside his own cabinet.
He wouldn't take the Hart/Rudman report seriously, he assigned Cheney to do his own report, that was to have started when....September of 2001.
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