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Clinton, in an NBC interview last week, said, "We did what we thought we could." He added: "I made it clear that we should take all necessary action to try to apprehend him (bin Laden) and get him. We never had another chance where the intelligence was as reliable to justify military action."

He made it clear, but he didn't make it happen.

His aides also say that the public and its Washington representatives failed to focus on terrorism because there was never a homeland attack to rally public opinion. Said Gorelick: "It's very hard to draw hypotheticals for people."

"Had Clinton scrambled 1,000 airplanes and called the nation's attention to the Africa embassy bombings, I don't think he would have had the support. What if he asked for $40 billion from Congress after the bombings? We couldn't even get enough money to protect the embassies," said Frank Wisner, a former CIA official, undersecretary of defense and ambassador to India during the Clinton administration.

Did they even try? How much persuasion would it have taken had they shown the video of the victims, made it clear that the embassies WERE American soil and put it to us that this continent was an attainable target?

When you "Wag the Dog," only the appearance of action and strong rhetoric is necessary.

My cousin Mary worked for the foreign service for 10 years, 5 in Stockholm (where she met her wonderful marine hubby), and 5 years in South Korea. Her friend Barbra still in the foreign service stopped to visit Mary from DC this past week. She was working in the State Department when the planes went into the towers. She said we are next, and sure enough the pentagon got hit. Embassy personell wondered what took so long, they have a very fatalistic view, the embassies are hardly protected at all. When some of her friends called her from various embassies around the world, some said welcome to the war. Sad but true.

"Had Clinton scrambled 1,000 airplanes and called the nation's attention to the Africa embassy bombings, I don't think he would have had the support. What if he asked for $40 billion from Congress after the bombings? We couldn't even get enough money to protect the embassies," said Frank Wisner, a former CIA official, undersecretary of defense and ambassador to India during the Clinton administration.

Is he trying to tell us that "the greatest communicator ever" with Dick Morris at his beck and call and a bunch of pro-Clinton media outlets couldn't convince the American people that it was necessary. No instead we allowed everyone including Hollywood to stuff Clinton down our throats (ooops a Freudian slip). Wag the Dog was not only an insult to our political system and The Presidency but more importantly it was a joke on all us average Joes -- They knew their man and Hollywood laughed at us!

"Had Clinton scrambled 1,000 airplanes and called the nation's attention to the Africa embassy bombings, I don't think he would have had the support. What if he asked for $40 billion from Congress after the bombings? We couldn't even get enough money to protect the embassies," said Frank Wisner, a former CIA official, undersecretary of defense and ambassador to India during the Clinton administration.

Tell me, was Mr. Wisner one of the ones screaming for Bush's head yesterday?