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I recall correctly the parades, the flag waving, the love, the candlelight vigils ON ALMOST EVERY STREET CORNER in the San Fernando Valley -- the tears, and the thirteen year old on a skateboard yelling "God Bless America!!!" at 2 AM after one parade down Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks to Studio City.

I RECALL CORRECTLY in my city, Los Angeles, of the fallen angels and liberals -- that left and right came together.

On the other hand, Karl Rove was the one cloistered in some "secret location", trying to figure out if the Secret Service had been infiltrated and whether or not they were right in thinking of shooting down Flight 93 before it hit the White House. He is the one not recalling correctly what happened right after 9/11.

You are describing regular Americans. Not liberals - in the academy, the media, or Hollywood. (Recall widespread liberal sneers at Fox personnel wearing flag pins. Recall Ward Churchill. Recall numerous liberal professors stunned at public criticism when they immediately blamed America for being attacked. One professor, since demoted, even declared that "anyone who can blow up the Pentagon has my vote." http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14986&printerfriendly=1)

Liberal reaction has been precisely as Rove described - before, during, and after 9/11.

Your recollection may be correct.....
You saw signs of both sides mourning for those lost and the consequences that most understood would come from that attack..

But Rove's comment is also correct...
The leftists, beginning with Carter and Clinton chose to ignore the meaning of the repeated attacks -- and refused to recognize and address them as acts of war..

The Leftists - to THIS DAY - still insist we should treat illegal battlefield captives and certifiable War Criminals as POWs protected by the Geneva Conventions and "have their day is civil court"..

To this day -- the left is STILL opposed to the war on grounds it wasn't sufficiently "justified" and lacks "world opinion" in our support...

Rove is totally correct in describing how different the mind set of how the Left wanted to REACT, versus how the RIGHT did in fact react (with the left complaining and protesting to this day!)

The leftists of American must never again be entrusted with the National Security of this nation -- if we expect this nation to survive as we know and love it..

Semper Fi