Our enemies have no compunction about lying.
But the truth is still far more powerful than lies.
The only way the truth won't win is if men and women of good conscience fail to speak the truth, loudly and forcefully.
Here is the truth that the American people need to hear over and over until they completely get it:
9-11 is the most vivid (to date) outworking of the Clinton legacy.
Eight years of all carrot, no stick foreign relations led to that point in history.
If the Bush team made any mistake in this, it was in keeping so many of Clinton's appointees around.
Richard Clarke is the most glaring example.
Dr. Clarke, who, as I said, has been a paid consultant to ABCNEWS Shouldn't that read: "Dr. Clarke, a has been, is a paid consultant to ABC News."
Seriously, this guy is nothing but double-speak.
He says if everything that he reccomended had been immediately put into place, it would not have prevented 9/11.
Then he says, "Given the warnings, if Bush and his cabinet had gotten more closely involved and 'shaken the trees', then it might have prevented 9/11."
Then I would ask about Clarke: Why didn't the SOB advise Bush to go "shake the trees".
He is not just a liar. He is a pathetic liar.