Tom's Post:

The analogy seems right. However, the attempt to produce evidence that the Bush administration or intelligence in general had sufficient information to prevent the attacks has clearly fallen short. Hence Bush's multiple refusals to apologize for the incident in his press conference. The liberal media's (and I think there is a liberal media agenda) attempt to blow up the intelligence memo that supposedly demonstrated Bush's knowledge seems to have backfired (and here I agree with Don)--Bush seems a stronger, more focused leader than he did before, particularly as a result of the press conference. Really, I think the charges that Bush should have acted regarding Al Quaeda before 9/11 are ridiculous. One pundit pointed out that the charges against the Bush administration are utterly inconsistent--he wasn't decisive enough about Al Quaeda, he was overly decisive about Iraq. The poor guy just can't win.