When reporter after reporter at the recent news conference insisted that President Bush either apologize for 9/11 or explain why he wasn't going to, it was impossible for anyone grounded in history to think that this was anything other than the enemies of the President trying to lay a trap for him.
Think about it -- they weren't asking him about a story, they were trying to provoke him into making a story. They weren't recording what happened, they were trying to make something happen.
And since there was no answer Bush could give that would not provide a wonderful sound bite for his opponent in the upcoming election, the President's only choice was to remind them that it was Al-Qaeda that hijacked the planes and slaughtered the innocents.
After all, Bush had far less information about 9/11 than he had about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he's supposed to apologize for not acting on the almost useless information he had about 9/11, and also apologize for acting on the extensive and reliable evidence he had about Saddam's WMDs?
No matter what political view we have, it is only fair to be honest with each other. The continuing lies and distortions don't help our country and they're not helping the rest of the world either.
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