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The applause is from a small chorus of "families of 9/11". We've all seen this before. People who are aggrieved and who manage to focus on the wrong cause/party to take out vengeance upon. The 9/11 attacks had specific victims - but it was an attack on the entire country. These misguided folks are trying to focus blame where it does not belong. It's really quite pathetic. And they're trying to articulate a special role or privilege in the process. I had a former colleague who was killed at the WTC - does that give me special privilege to determine the architecture of the rebuilt WTC or some memorial? No. And the families more direct connection to the crime of 9/11 dose not give them a privileged position to act as a peanut gallery for the Democratic partisans who want to turn the Bush Administration into a punching bag.

And let me say this about Jamie Gorelick who is questioning Rice as I write. In George Stephanopoulos' book about his time in the White House he wrote about the scene as the verdict in the O.J. Criminal Trial was coming down. President Clinton, Stephanopoulos and Gorelick were at the White House watching it on television. Stephanopoulos point out that Gorelick had in her hands a statement to be read to the press at the White House which was a contingency plan for the event that O.J. had been convicted. It would have indicated that an investigation in Mark Fuhrman was to begin at the Justice Department and was intended to diffuse what the White House was expecting to be a race riot in L.A. over a conviction. How do you like that - they prepare for the political consequences of a conviction, but cannot find the time to direct the justice department to investigate the federal basis for a projection of O.J. on federal conspiracy to commit murder charges. These slimy, ass covering folks wanted to make sure they kept Maxine Waters happy but couldn't lift a finger to do justice. And Gorelick was right there as Deputy AG.

Dr. Rice countered all the allegations with carefully reasoned explanations that included their own verbal footnotes for reference. It is better to erode terrorism from underneath rather than let them call the shots. We'll never know how many lives have been saved through this quietly effective policy and this administration will never be recognized for that feat. The Democrats, on the other hand, spent years purposely undermining the power and capabilities of the CIA and hampered the FBI by apponting the politically-dominated Louis Freeh. Only now, when the fruits of the Democrat's efforts have resulted in tragedy, these people refuse to recognize their responsibility in what occurred and seek to pin blame where it doesn't belong.

That he FOKs (Friends of Kerry) had packed the gallery with 9-11 relatives, whom they have spent great effort to twist their grief for vile political fodder, represents the depths of depravity the Democrat Party operate in.