I think the "Bush Knew" signs are over the top. There is certainly reason to take our security forces to task for having not responded to data that we had, but it's overstating the case to say that we, or the president in particular, knew that this type of attack was impending. The sad fact is that our people were human, and they screwed up. The first one of us who has never screwed up, please stand up, now.

I sure wish we could detune the political attacks from both sides of the spectrum back to a productive level. Sometimes I feel like we hate each other more than Al Qaeda hates us.