Was George W. Bush a competent president before 9/11 occured?

Two things: First you are talking about a question that is very subjective by nature. Second, you are talking about a very short period of time, Jan 20, 2001 is the day he officially took office. Less than eight months later were the attack on 9/11. So your question is, how good of a president was G.W. read more

Kind of hard to answer that b/c it depends upon what you mean by "good job." I disagree with a number of his policies he'd taken to that point. read more

Calendars from that era indicate that January 20, the day Bush was sworn in as president, occurred some time before September 11. That still doesn’t settle the question of whether Bush stopped being president sometime before September 11. read more

A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal. On April 10, 2004, the Bush White House declassified that daily brief — and only that daily brief — in response to pressure from the 9/11 Commission, which was investigating the events leading to the attack. read more