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Actually, now that I have read his remarks, I realise I made a fundamental mistake, trusting that the Democrats quoted him accurately and that the MSM checked the facts. Here is what he ACTUALLY SAID:

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban; in the wake of 9/11, liberals believed it was time to… submit a petition. I am not joking. Submitting a petition is precisely what Moveon.org did. It was a petition imploring the powers that be” to “use moderation and restraint in responding to the… terrorist attacks against the United States.”

The phrase "for our attackers" is different than "to our attackers". The phrase could easily mean they wanted to offer therapy, AND offer understanding FOR our attackers. Meaning to make US understand why our attackers did what they did.

It is absolutely the case that liberals, after 9/11, offered reasons (excuses) about why people hated us, how it was our fault, and how we should have understanding of their plight, and take the opportunity to reach out to them and prove we weren't their enemy.

Here's more comparisons he made: Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said: we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said: we must understand our enemies. Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see … Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia.

Nowhere in his "prepared" remarks did he use "democrats" in his conservative/liberal comparisons. I suppose it is possible that in his actual speech he accidentally said "democrats" once when he meant to say liberals, but I don't have the audio.