I'm sure glad that Kerry chose to deliver his speech blasting Bush for using 9/11 as a political pawn on September 9th. Had he delivered it two days later, the speech would have been criticized for politicizing 9/11, but with his deft, nuanced touch he managed to get in his political attacks on the 9th, rather than the 11th, so I guess that makes it a statesmanlike act rather than a whining polemic, huh...