I know of people this past week who are putting forward theories that include the US Govt being fully aware that an event of this magnitude was about to happen but had decided as easrly as 2000 to allow it to happen & to use it to focus world energy on wiping out the 'forces-of-evil'.Well, actually I didn't hear it, but my wife listened to a local public radio station where one of the local guys that's known locally was proposing that theory (people in the DFW will know John Wiley Price).
The one convenient aspect to this conspiracy theory is that since Bush was smart enough to let it occur, then surely he will be equally qualified to solve the problem. Nice convenient and tidy way to view things with the world being but a playtoy of the rich and powerful - it's a much scarier thought to realize that we have don't have near enuf control over our destiny as a species.