Richard Clarke, about the only one besides John O'Neill who came through The Path to 9/11 looking heroic, says we're too focused on assigning blame. But the Bush Administration isn't the one who brought it all back. That honor belongs to Bill Clinton's blowout on Fox News Sunday.

I agree with Clarke that we're too concerned with the past, but when the Senate voted to authorize war against Saddam, there was no controversy. It was only when the Democrats needed an issue for the 2004 election that the absense WMD became such a big deal. It allowed those who had voted for the war to claim they'd been snookered, but common sense tells us that Saddam had ample time to move his stockpiles before we were ready to go. It shouldn't have surprised anybody that his illegal weapons weren't there when we arrived. The U.N. inspectors hadn't found them, either. What the left fails to acknowledge is that Saddam had the capacity to rebuild the nerve gas weapons at any time he felt free to do so, and that if he had been given more time, he surely would have been free of U.N. sanctions.

The Democrats still don't admit that Bush has nearly destroyed Al Qaeda as a force, and that terrorism isn't confined just to Afghanistan. The terrorists might have been totally discredited now, but for the hope and encouragement given them by our own media and the loony left. Clarke should know better than to try to blame this on the war in Iraq.