Believed what? The saddam thing, no never did for a second, by the way when Massoud got assissinated the weekend before 9/11 I was worried something was up, of course I didn't envision 9/11, I figured some sort of an attack on foreign soil, but I knew something was in the works, it just seemed that Bin Laden was doing a favor for the Taliban, and I knew he had to be getting something in return
The U.S. government got screwed on national television the day of 9/11, pretty hard to hide that, days after 9/11 we all saw the mistakes, laziness, lack of coordination between agencies that had been committed and they were tough to swallow, sure the government tried to quiet down their part in that in their ineptitude, but they have not done a great job of it, most americans know the government screwed up, and it ain't just bush, it goes back to every president since carter