Here's one explanation: He was making the same mistake as golfers make. He's taking his eye off the "ball." Right handed shooter gets excited about seeing if he hit his target and pulls gun down and to the left. Watch where the bullets hit.

The only other thing I can think of is that his gun isn't sighted in properly, but a good marksman would be able to see that and compensate.

I don't know where you're getting that, Farhad - it's pretty much a given now that the Bush administration used the grief over 9/11 to send us to Afghanistan and Iraq, and I've never denied that. They also took their eye off the ball of international terrorism, something Clinton forewarned Bush about personally before he left office.

That makes them incompetent, not a player in some mass conspiracy to bring the Towers down. Did they conspire to get their war in Iraq after that? Absolutely.

I've sad that to you on numerous occasions; I don't know why you can't get that through your head.

Well, aaron - that, like their reluctance to start (and barely fund) the 9/11 Commission, all stems from a desire to cover their own asses; to deny responsibility for their own incompetence.

Tough to say whether or not it would've happened under a Gore administration; probably, but at least the Clintons hadn't completely taken their eye off the ball of international terrorism.

And Lord knows we would never hear the end of it from the Republicans if it had; as it is, the Bush administration continues to get off very light for the worst attack in the nation's history.