Kevin Hayden at the american street: Thinking the Nine-Eleven Clueless Blues shows he is a serious man:
Mr. Bush, we haven’t forgotten. Almost every day, we are reminded of it. When I hear ‘Bin Laden’, I think of it. Or Al Qaida. Or terrorist, or Pakistan, or Afghanistan, or Saudi Arabia. Words like ‘homeland’ and ‘alert’ and ‘casualty’ and ‘casket’ make me remember. ‘Troops’ and ‘airports’ and ‘WMDs’ make it seem as fresh as yesterday. But my thoughts don’t jump from there to ‘faith, family and steady leadership.’
Instead, I wonder why it happened, why the intel failed, how a country that held off the Soviets and spent billions on Star Wars couldn’t stop a plane from hitting the Pentagon. I wonder why our ports are not fully protected yet; it’s been two and a half years. I wonder why no one’s been held accountable for anything. I wonder why the Rudman-Hart Homeland Security report has not been implemented; the part about the need for science and math teachers has been completely ignored. I wonder about troops lacking bulletproof vests. I wonder about leaders who set records for vacations claiming their leadership is steady. I wonder why footage of the handling of the dead at 9-11 is in your campaign ads while your Pentagon has ordered that no soldiers’ caskets can be photographed at all.
I wonder why the plots of domestic terrorists are barely being covered by our press. I wonder how your aide can say we need to remember and assume we forgot.
What he said.