The Need to Fight Back

If Democrats want to learn what they need to do win all they do is watch President Clinton's response to Chris Wallace and (to ABC's recent alleged documentary on 9/11). The lesson is that one has to fight back as conservatives have no problem in dishonestly fighting.

During the interview Chris Wallace attempted to say that the only reason he was asking about Clinton not being able to take out Osama bin Laden was that FOX News viewers had it on their mind. To that Clinton raised the major point that the media is unwilling to discuss.

"Well, there's a reason it's on people's minds. That's the point I'm trying to make. There's a reason it's on people's minds: Because there's been a serious disinformation campaign to create that impression," Clinton said.

For years the Democrats have faced disinformation campaigns (homeland security in 2002, swift boats in 2004, and torture in 2006) and Republicans came out ahead in the first two elections. Unless they figure out what happen before, history will repeat as Republican have no other issues that could gain American's support, as Clinton pointed out happened in 2002.

"In 2002, our party supported them in undertaking weapons inspections in Iraq and was 100 percent for what happened in Afghanistan, and they didn't have any way to make us look like we didn't care about terror.

And so, they decided they would be for the homeland security bill that they had opposed. And they put a poison pill in it that we wouldn't pass, like taking the job rights away from 170,000 people, and then say that we were weak on terror if we weren't for it."

Democrats need to listen to Clinton if they are going to win this year - This is perfectly predictable: We're going to win a lot of seats if the American people aren't afraid. If they're afraid and we get divided again, then we may only win a few seats.

The causes of 9/11

Five years after the attacks on September 11, 2001, the country and the media took a long look back at the attacks and noted the importance of the events. Perhaps one can tell the importance of an event by the amount of time people spend on remembering an event.

More than 200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence the country annually celebrates the birth of the country. For more than 40 years the country has looked back on November 22 to remember where they, or the country, was on that fateful day.

Part of the fifth anniversary events surrounding the 9/11 attacks was a so called docudrama on ABC, called the Path to 9/11. According to news reports, the show seeks to blame the Clinton administration for the attacks, in part suggesting that the administration was preoccupied with Monica Lewinsky.

If correct, that reflects just as badly, or worse, on conservatives and the media for they are responsible for the excessive time spent on Whitewater/Monica. One has to wonder if the resources spent on this meaningless event were spent on finding and fighting terrorism, could 9/11 have been prevented?

Conservatives may argue that it was important to investigate but that argument falls flat when one considers how little was made of the fifth anniversary of the impeachment hearings of President Clinton. Oh, a few in the media remembered the event, if only in their mind to justify what they had done.

So if there was little or nothing to the Clinton investigations and conservatives believe that Clinton was preoccupied with the investigations, and that preoccupation with the investigations kept the U.S. from preventing 9/11, then doesn't it stand that those who pushed the investigations helped set the stage for 9/11?

So if we are going to assign blame, will the GOP, conservatives, and many in the media be held accountable for their role in allowing 9/11 to happen?