[mburbank]

I'm putting that last paragraph into Naldo's thread on scenario's under which W. might loose the election.

And here's my pre-emptive strike against the expected cry of "Clinton's intelligence agency's were just as much to blame." While I might quibble about how much blame goes where, I agree.

But 9/11 came on W's watch, which put him and his administration not only in charge, but in a position to lie. Instead of immediately saying 'we have to know what we did wrong', they first tried to stifle any investigation at all and then dragged (and drag) their feet even now.

This is a bi-partisan commision headed by a republican. It will be pretty hard to label their findings 'election year partisanship'.