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I don’t think George Bush or any President will be able to do much about this. What we have witnessed is a total failure of our government officials to protect us from terrorist attacks.

After the first plane hit the WTC, the TV networks were able to get their news helicopter in the air within 5 to 10 minutes, so that the second plane crash was on live TV, but I never did see any military aircraft flying over New York until much later that day.

Out here where I live in New Mexico, we have several major power plants that supply electricity to many Western states, and there was never any military response to protect the power plants. They are still wide open to air and truck bomb attacks right now.

We are on our own, folks. The politicians are just giving speeches and that’s all they are equipped to do. It made me sick to see so many of them say we are going to “get even” for these attacks. Well, hell, it’s too late. We hire these jerks to help protect us. We pay a lot of taxes so our military can guard and protect us. And all of the bureaucrats and military leaders have failed us.

This is another Pear Harbor all over again. Lots of military people, but no one on alert. No one prepared to react immediately to the first attack. Too many military bureaucrats at the water coolers at the Pentagon, so that they couldn’t even protect the Pentagon from attack.

And now Bush is asking for more money? More money for what? More money for the hiring of more bureaucrats?

I would prefer to be guarded by the brave firemen and policemen of New York City than by all the federal bureaucrats in the entire country. To hell with the federal bureaucrats.

It's not too late to get even, Fred. Even is what you get, AFTER you get sucker-punched. The feds may have initially failed, and failed us for a long time, but they are going to have to change, and we are going to have to see to it that they do. It is beyond the abilities of firemen and policemen to protect us against this enemy. Firemen marched into those towers to their deaths. We need men who are able to do things that firemen and police can't. And that is just what the feds are for.