But they are so true. I really wish the following column were not true. At the end of the day, however, the Democrats dont have a heck of a lot of a unified National Security policy. The fact that there is no policy showing how we are strong really hurts us and certaintly does anything other than making us immune to the types of attacks metioned by the President below. The 2006 elections are not far away and we better have something right about now. Something that we can make better before 2008 and stronger for the future. Anyways, I am mad now but take a look at this. I am not happy but I have said this before:
A Post 9/11 Problem for Democrats
By Joan Vennochi

Then, Coretta Scott King's funeral intervened. Four presidents attended -- Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and the Republican father and son, George H.W. and George W. Bush. Carter used the platform to allude to the Bush administration wiretapping controversy. He mentioned the difficulties that Mrs. King and her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., endured as they became the target of secret government wiretapping; he failed to mention that attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, a Democrat, authorized the King wiretapping. In their funeral remarks, the Bushes took the gracious approach, leaving the Democrats to look tastelessly partisan.

Moments like that undercut the Democrats' ability to exploit the growing public perception of incompetence and abuse of power in the Bush White House. Facing the 2006 election year, Republicans in Congress are attuned to the public's unhappiness over the direction the country is headed. It is apparent in the GOP's pressing of Gonzales about wiretapping; the resistance to certain provisions of the Patriot Act; and the criticism of the administration's slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina.

But whenever resistance to his policies starts to reach critical mass, Bush pushes the old 9/11 button:

Speaking to the National Guard Association this week, he revealed that the United States and governments of several Southeast Asian countries disrupted a plan by Al Qaeda to hijack a commercial airliner and fly it into a Los Angeles skyscraper in early 2002. Vice President Dick Cheney told a group of conservatives at the Heritage Foundation that the country has been protected from additional terrorist attacks by ''more than just luck."

Average citizens smirk, and Democrats scoff. Bush never fails to entertain. This time, he referred to the West Coast target as the ''Liberty Tower" instead of the ''Library Tower."

But until Democrats come up with a post-9/11 strategy, the Bush White House and the GOP get the last laugh.