The 9/11 commission's actual title is "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States." That's a far broader scope than would be apparent from all their lint-picking and navel-gazing as to who was at fault for 9/11. I wonder if any of the wizards on that commission have even figured out that the anthrax letters were a terrorist attack upon the United States. If so, I wonder what we can expect in their report on this particular matter.
I also wonder why all those 20/20-hindsight dot-connectors out there in the media haven't figured out the central role the anthrax attacks must have had in sealing Saddam's fate. Just this morning, some press dude with a sonorous voice and a big title was on C-SPAN holding forth on how the record shows that President Bush was looking at the possibility of attacking Iraq in Nov. 2001.
Well, duh! Wouldn't it be nice if the media would connect THESE dots:
Now that was the ACTUAL state of the nation in Nov. 2001. Given those facts, any repeat any President of the United States would be criminally negligent if he didn't:
(1) Demand an inquiry into the possibility that Iraq was behind or connected to the anthrax attacks, if not the hijackings.
(2) Ask for plans to be drawn up for the invasion of Iraq should it become necessary.