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The commission and this report coming out now is incredible. There were terrorist experts on Fox and other news stations a number of times preceding 9-11, well before Bush was in office, talking about the good possibility of terror attacks on U.S. soil. Someone even wrote a book about it.

Unfortunately, these interviews were fill-ins on the news between the Monica and impeachment stories. It appears the election/chad fiasco has also fallen by the wayside in the timeline of events. Everyone was too preoccupied with the antics of the former administration and trying to restore some assemblence of order to our government.

There were reports long before 9-11, but everyone was too distracted, including ourselves, with the national soap opera that was playing out. Has the commission talked about the first days of the Bush administration, when they had to clean up the offices after previous staff members trashed them?

Collectively, our country was distracted. We'll never know if 9-11 could have actually been prevented. However, it was all the distraction that caused us to be so dysfunctional.

The Inman Report that came out in 1985 told us what this commission is telling us. How foolish was it to stack sleeping Marines up in a building in a war zone? Future commissions will tell us the same damn thing--the terrorist bastards need only get lucky once and if we think we're immune we've got our heads stuck so far up our arsch-holes we should all be dancing around, clutching at the seat of our pants, Ach Du Lieber! Mein Arsch!

Even now there are probably so many terrorist cells in this country that the likelihood of something catastrophic happening is just a matter of time and place, their time, their place of choosing, to strike when they want.