If you will recall, in the days and weeks following 9/11, the prayers of the entire world, regardless of faith or ideology, were with us in our mourning. At that moment, we had a fleeting chance to heal rifts with many nations and peoples around the world. We could have held up our constitution, and our system and rule of law, using it to prosecute any individuals who were found to be involved in that heinous act. We could have limited the use of our military to those states who sponsored the criminals who murdered our citizens, as well as the citizens from many other nations on that dark day.
George Bush, and many others of both parties, never quite made it past that day. Mind you, I don't feel that anyone should forget what happened then, but with all things, you must move on. But it was the fact that we were not allowed to move on, that any event subsequent to that fateful day was viewed through the lens of their "9/11 mindset", that has brought us to where we are today. When Americans were hurt and psychologically vulnerable to strike out, we were told that others unconnected to that day's events were to blame. We were sold a bill of goods based on the mindset of that day, not just on Iraq, but on FISA, on supplemental bill after supplemental bill, and now even on Iran and another somewhat dubious link to "nuclear program-related activities."
Mr. McCain, we must move on, past 9/11. This is 2008, not 2001, and the people ultimately responsible for the planning of the attack you reference on a daily basis as justification for whatever you seek to do, are still out there precisely because of your "9/11 mindset." Mr. McCain, don't you think its time to move past these distractions that have done nothing to ensure either the health of our armed forces or of the ultimate security of the United States? In the post 9/11 world, we must deal with the problems of reality, and those problems are particularly ones that have taken hold during the administration of, or have slipped through the fingers of those who continue to think as you do today. We need a change in the White House, and in Washington, Mr. McCain, we desperately need someone who can see the problems of today and tomorrow through fresh eyes, and not through the lens one tragic day.
just putting that out there
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