Worse.  Plus they were passing Patriot Act, fake nationalism to justify the end of America, you better think and act just how we say or you're in trouble, TSA in the airports, body scanners, surveillance.  9-11 was a nightmare not because of what happened that day so but because of what it was immediately used for socio-politically.  If you questioned it you were not just a conspiracy nut you were an unpatriotic commie.  It only took a few years though for muslims to be good guys and patriotism to be something evil.