Remeber, 911 was planned long before Bush took power. The only thing the US did in the middle east at that time was to help Kuwait defeat Iraqi invasion. Why those people hate America so much that they want to kill thounsands of innocent, defenseless civilians, make everybody here lives in fear and damage economy? This is a power struggle man, the extreme Islamists have only one goal, to let Islam dominate the world, to replace the US with an Islamic power in the middle east and in the world. So their goal will always be take down the US -- the strongest non-Islamic nation on earth, the devil's head, no matter who is in the White house, no matter how soft the US government is.