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So why does Bush think saying "Had we known" is going to help him?

Especially when it took Clarke eight (8) months to get a meeting with him?

And Condi had numerous examples of terrorists using airplanes as missiles (kamikazis, anyone)?

And we know from whistleblower Sibel Edmonds (back here) that there are plenty of documents showing AQ plans for attack on US soil?

Waiting for Thursday, Condi-lie-zza....

And for whenever our sock President and his puppet master deign to appear....

UPDATE Gary Hart rips Bush a new one in Salon here, thanks to alert reader Budman:

Suppose that in March or April, 1941, 14 Americans with lengthy backgrounds in national security affairs had reported to President Franklin Roosevelt that the United States was going to be attacked somewhere, sometime, somehow by the Japanese, that this attack would result in large numbers of American casualties, and these officially-appointed Americans had strongly recommended to the Roosevelt administration that it take urgent steps to help prevent such an attack. Further suppose that Roosevelt had done little if anything in response to this warning, and that almost eight months later, as it happened, the Japanese attacked American facilities at Pearl Harbor, and almost two thousand Americans died. Suppose after this attack official inquiries were launched, as it also happened, as to why there was a failure of intelligence, what actions were or were not taken based on what intelligence there was, and what could be done to prevent such catastrophic surprises in the future. And finally suppose that the official commission created to investigate the tragedy of Pearl Harbor failed to call upon the original 14 Americans who forecast the attack and forewarned against it.
Now move this supposed scenario forward to 2004 and you have virtually a perfect fit and an actual set of circumstances.

FDR. Now there was a war President. Even if, wheelchair-bound, he couldn't prance on a flight deck.