I was 31 when it happened. I saw everything leading up to it.
Like how George Bush actually DID steal the election with the help of Katharine Harris and his brother in Florida and the supreme court stopping the recount.
I knew about all the things the old guard from Nixon and Daddy Bush's presidency had left unaccomplished because of checks and balances, and that they were still having wet dreams about.
EVERY SINGLE THING the neocons had been trying to accomplish since Nixon and Daddy Bush, they accomplished because 9/11 allowed them to accomplish it.
If they WEREN'T complicit in the events of 9/11, then 9/11 was literally the biggest stroke of good luck in the entire history of conservative politics, ever.