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Monday, June 03, 2002

Hindsight is 20/20 Along the Party Lines

I don’t get much into politics. I know what’s going on, I just try not to talk about it too much. The whole thing is embarrassing to me. Our elected officials are just a bunch of whining crybabies that are only concerned with their jobs and their party. I had hoped that the tragedies of last September would pull the country and our government closer together. This morning I am reading that congress is going to be holding hearings into how much the government knew prior to the attack and where the communication broke down. If this was all they were doing I would be fine with it. There are holes in the communication between the agencies, so plugging those holes are crucial.

But the Democrats are using this as a witch-hunt to make the President look bad. They claim that the tragedy could have been avoided and the President did nothing to stop it. Well, I have a message for the Democrats… “Shut up”. The United States got caught with their pants down. We knew these guys were in the country; the CIA was following them for the last year, which means that it goes back to the Clinton administration as well. Somehow someone was supposed to put two and two together and come up with the fact that someone was going to run an airplane into the World Trade Center?

The agencies need to communicate better. Our national security needs to be heightened, but the finger pointing is just ridiculous. We try to teach kids to stand up and take responsibility for their actions, but at a time when the whole world is watching, the Democrats are pointing at the President and are saying “he did it”. Well, he didn’t. If you want to put blame anywhere besides the terrorists that actually committed the acts, then look at the country as a whole. We were living in a dream of security and pride. The dream is over. We screwed up. Now it’s time to work together and fix it.

And to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said "There were a number of bits and pieces, and they weren't put together. There were several things that could have been investigated, had investigation been looked at as a way to go, which it wasn't.", can you stop telling people you’re from California please. You are just embarrassing us.