I don't think the Bush administration was in a panic.<br>I think they (Cheney) was in a state of bliss.<br>The Project for the New American Century, a think tank of neocons, laid out everything that happened from 9/11 onward.<br>The Bush administration got to spend 3 trillion dollars and then dump the bill on the Obama administration.<br>They built Homeland Security which is the largest government expansion since WWII.<br>And, all of the large contracts just happened to go to halliburton. The very same company that Cheney left to become the VP.<br>No, there was no panic.