If the London bombings are a wake up call for the Democrats they must have been hitting the "snooze button" repeatededly beginning with the IRAQ/al Qaeda attack on the WTC on February 23, 1993. Yes, Iraq did attack the World Trade Center!
Democrats are wanting to sound tough, in reality the most important thing to them is reacquiring power. They will do, say and sacrifice everything to achieve this goal, even national security.
Democrats are longing for another attack by the enemy on American soil while President Bush is in office, their criticsms folowing this event are already written.
They'll champion large, pointless spending plans to feather their own political nests and to give them cover for the fact that, simultaneously, they do their level best to hamstring the government in its efforts to interrogate terrorists and develop the intelligence necessary to prevent such attacks. Just imagine how many American troops and innocent Iraqis would be alive today if our troops and intelligence agencies had been allowed to use effective interrogation against captured terrorists. When you're in a dirty war, you've got to use dirty methods. It's morally justifiable against terrorists because they've flushed any concept of humanity or morality down the drain.