I couldn't read beyond this line. Dubya would do anything to change the events of 9/11. Clinton is the one wishing it had happened on his watch. Dubya wishes it had never happened at all--as do all decent human beings.
Of course, but that doesn't stop the government from using the event for its own purposes. The American people, even conservatives on this forum, are willing to give the federal government a blank check to fight this war wherever it wishes, against whomever it wishes, and for as long as it wishes. That sounds like perpetual war to me.
As soon as this "War on Terrorism" was declared (in the loose, non-Constitutional sense, of course) I suspected we were in for another, bigger and better, dose of statism from the same nice folks who gave us the War on Poverty, and the War on Drugs.
I earnestly hope that Mr. Bush is re-elected because I dread to see what the Democrats will do, internationally, with this new License to Kill. Kosovo will pale in comparison. And the Bush / Ashcroft machinery of "homeland defense" should make for much merriment under the next Clinton-style administration. Yes, indeed. The fun is just beginning.