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howardfineman@aol.com

Dear Mr. Fineman,

Your clearly partisan attack on Dr Rice's testimony simply does not pass the smell test. Your repeated desperate attempt to pin 9-11 on Bush raises a serious question about both your intellectual honesty and your credibility. All the DNC directed "News media Analysis" seem to miss one crucial fact. By giving a complete pass to 8 years of Clinton inaction and screaming about 8 months of Bush's, you demonstrate clearly that you are not honest brokers of information but partisan cheerleaders. You also miss the most crucial fact. The American people clearly find this whole 9-11 Commission a waste of time. Look at the polls. Those, like you, who fanatically hate Bush are the only ones who think the 9-11 Commission is important or has any impact. The American People know mistakes were made prior to 9-11. That is why 9-11 happened. They are not really too interested in this "close the barn door after the horse escaped" got-ya mentality the "News Media" glories in. What the American people DO desperately care about is that 9-11 DOES NOT happen again. In the end, Bush will be judged solely on what has happened SINCE 9-11 and if he or Kerry can do a better job of keeping it from happening AFTER 11-02-04. Perhaps since your so determined to join the DNC directed chorus and shed any guise of intellectually honesty, perhaps you explain this. Despite all the hype about Bush's poll numbers going down on the issues of Iraq and War On Terror. Why is President Bush's rating vrs Kerry gone UP at the same time in every RED state? Better start throwing away the DNC Talking Points and doing some REAL research if you want to be taken seriously Mr Fineman. Perhaps the very harshness of your attack on Dr Rice indicates the real point of your article. You know Dr Rice hit a home run today and she pretty much shattered any credibility the 9-11 Commission had left as "Bipartisan" with the political middle. So like the Bush AWOL smear, the 9-11 Commission and Richard Clarke are now going into the junk bin of failed DNC campaign ploys. That just breaks your little Bush Hater heart now doesn't it, Mr Fineman?