Originally posted by monochrom
You know one of the reasons your country went to hell some time ago? Because of your legal system, where you waste time, money and intelligence in idiotic hearings.
And we have hearings because everyone here wants a definitive answer even when it's likely we'll never get one. Never mind the complexity of the whole situation, show us where to point the finger and we'll do so! The equation works like so:
Al-Qaeda presence in America + (undetermined security failure) = 9/11
Now if you're a Democrat, that security failure was a series of bungled attempts by the Bush administration to keep tabs on known terrorist groups with people in the US.
If you're a Republican, the seeds of 9/11 were sown long ago by Clinton, because he stuck a cigar in a chubby intern. No, wait, it was a plot by Evil Stepmother Hillary Clinton to destroy America as we know it. Because she's actually a radical Muslim who sold American weapons secrets to the Chinese. Yeah, that's it.
The problem with this country is that all the smart people want to be lawyers. Work little, show off your brain, flex your ego on a national stage, and get paid big...isn't that the American dream?