Paul Krugman eloquently expresses how I feel about President Bush's response to the events of September 11, 2011. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/more-about-the-911-anniversary/
An event that should have evoked a police action to find and hold accountable those responsible for an atrocious crime, instead was abused by those in power to instigate two useless wars diverting resources from our domestic needs, and impairing our true security by threatening the financial stability of the United States. See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/cost-... for a graphic of the estimated financial cost of this inappropriate response, in addition to the lives lost and disrupted.