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And he offered a prediction that the show will “get just as many howls from Republicans.”

I don't doubt it. Our terrorism problem and failed intell services were a long term problem that grew over 20 or more years. The people who only want to blame republicans or only want to blame democrats really don't want to solve anything. They just want to play politics. I do think the least culpable person is George Bush. Like I said, it didn't happen overnight.

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I agree that it is a long term program. The WTC was initally targeted under Republican administration(s) with the first physicall attack being in February of 1993.

However it is the response from the Clinton administration (who came into office with no foreign policy experience, something that the Dems then tried to use against Bush43 but that they ignored under Bush41) that led to increased terrorist attacks on US interests around the world culminating in the physical destruction of both World Trade Center towers and a considerable section of the Pentagon with another hijacked-plane-used-as-missile that did not reach its intended target.

[alnick]

Our terrorism problem and failed intell services were a long term problem that grew over 20 or more years. The people who only want to blame republicans or only want to blame democrats really don't want to solve anything. They just want to play politics. I do think the least culpable person is George Bush. Like I said, it didn't happen overnight.

I agree with you; however, who's doing the preemptive howling? Republicans? Or Democrats?

I think you'll find that by and large Republicans want to solve the terrorism problem. Democrats want to take power in Washington...at any cost.