CNN Poll: More Americans Blaming Bush For 9/11

Americans blaming Bush.

When does the Bush Administration finally start taking some accountability for the worst terrorist act to happen on U.S. soil on their watch? Instead of playing the blame game, how about a hint of humility and a simple statement about how we (the Bush Administration) dropped the ball, big time?

No, instead, we hear more of the standard keep-the-course neo-con rhetoric and more projection of blame onto others.

The Republican Party, the same party that touts itself as the party of "Homeland Defense," is really the party to blame for 9/11. They controlled Congress, the heads of the CIA and FBI, and the presidency. They had complete control of all intelligence and those in charge of keeping our country safe.

Either the Republicans allowed this horrible event to happen (another Pearl Harbor?), or they didn't act when they were given the information, and people died because of negligence.

You really have no one else to blame when you and/or your party runs the entire show, and something goes very wrong.

Sometimes the best thing said in extreme screw-ups like this is sorry, and then you move on. However, I just can't picture any members of the GOP saying sorry for allowing 9/11 to happen. It's just not their style.

The percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past four years, a CNN poll released Monday found.

Asked whether they blame the Bush administration for the attacks, 45 percent said either a "great deal" or a "moderate amount," up from 32 percent in a June 2002 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

But the Clinton administration did not get off lightly either. The latest poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, found that 41 percent of respondents blamed his administration a "great deal" or a "moderate amount" for the attacks.

That's only slightly less than the 45 percent who blamed his administration in a poll carried out less than a week after the attacks.