"And I think it's important to recognise that all this new Internet technology that you guys know so much about has to be reviewed, in a sense, to see whether we're constraining our intelligence communities from getting after the culprits that may be American citizens. It's not pleasant." - George Bush Snr speaking after the attacks in New York and Washington.
"We think that whoever is found responsible for this should pay the ultimate price. If any country is found responsible, that country should be destroyed. If it is a terrorist organisation, it should be destroyed." - Quote from a US software company's unambiguous and extremely widely circulated email last week.