JP5 WROTE JP There are many issues that I do agree with you on but when you try to blame all the problems of 9/11 on the Democrats and "the Democratically controlled congress" that is not supportable.

That type of blame game is no better and is just as childish as the Democrats who claims that Republicans want "children to starve" if Reps block increases in the school lunch program.

I will grant you that after Watergate there was a horrendous over-reaction to the intelligence agencies and the FBI and the pendulum swung way too far. That was very wrong. Frank Church should have probably been investigated for treason. Intelligence committee chair.

Yet it is very very wrong when Republicans who try to defend Nixon and call the WATERGATE break in a " third rate burglary". The truth is that Watergate was only the tip of the iceberg for Nixon's treachery. For those of us who lived in those times Nixon behaved as if he was Chairman of the Soviet Union rather than a U.S president.

Since Nixon and before Bush II the years of Democratic and Republican control of the White House is equal.

To blame all the ills that happen to this country since 1972 on the Dems, but to take credit for the Reagan years is disingenuous.

Example : The blame game has been played by both camps with equal stupidity. Blaming Bush alone for 9/11 after he was only in office for months is just as stupid as blaming Clinton for the first World trade center bombings which occurred one month and a few days after Clinton took office.

The blame for 9/11 can be spread over many years and can fall into many laps. Let's work on fixing it and not pointing the finger of blame.

I say that to both Democrats and Republicans.