With Sept 11 coming up...

[scaeagles]

I read MBC's post and am tempted to once again get involved with a discussion of where negligence exists - if any - in our government related to 9/11, but it has been discussed so many times that everyone knows what I think.

With political spin, it is possible to make any agenda seem inept when something major happens that was not a part of that agenda. As in, they were paying so much attention to A that they paid no attention to B. Whether A has been affected or not or would have been a problem should B have been he priority doesn't much matter. Political opportunism will rise up to take advantage. It works this way no matter who is in power.

All I know is that during Presidential campaigns, whether against Gore or Kerry, the subject matter wasn't Bin Laden when it came to national security. Kerry said "if you don't believe Iraq is a threat, don't vote for me." However, it is now poliically expedient to forget such words and say Bush didn't care enough about what was the risk.

I discount all such discussion as hindsight being 20/20 and opportunism.