[onedoug]

His first target should have been wahabbist saudi Arabia.

[Darkwolf377]

One of the interesting things about articles about George W. Bush and 9/11 is how it reveals how many incredible armchair generals we have. Folks who, I feel pretty safe guessing have never been president of a country of any size, know just what should have been done, and just know it would have been done without leading to more deaths of Americans and millions of dead innocents.

Interesting how we rightly despise the 9/11 killers for murdering 3000 innocent people, but we bash Bush for not incinerating millions of innocent people in retaliation. Good Christians all, nuking away—ah, but it’s DIFFERENT when WE kill innocents!

If only we had these folks running the war, instead of sitting at home behind their computers!

[RobinOfKingston]

One lesson from all this is that, as best possible, America should keep her wars short, because we could elect a fricking democrat next time.

[Stultis]

I learned from Rove's book that Bush's speech to the ground zero workers was completely spontaneous. There was no plan for him so speak, and no prepared text. It became clear at the site that those there wanted to hear from their President, so someone found a bullhorn with a half dead battery and someone located a crushed fire truck that could serve as a visible stage.

Could anyone even imagine Obama coming through in a moment like that? Or even dragging his teleprompter up a pile of rubble?