You "inquest" is the worst Bush hater on FR. Come one man just give it up, enough with your idiotic arguments.
According to what's being said on this and countless other threads by Bush's fans, the war was already in effect at least since the 1993 WTC bombings. Did he show any signs of acknowledging that fact? Did he at any point during the 2000 campaign criticize the Clinton administration for an inadequate response to the provocations? His talk of "humility" during the campaign suggested that if anything, Clinton was trying to do too much.
He gave no outward sign during the campaign, or during the first eight months of his presidency, that he was about to change U.S. policy toward the terrorists. That lack of outward sign, as much as anything else, was a part of the "response" Bush said that "the terrorists saw", in his statement quoted in the article of the thread.