When the 'Bleed-Out' Begins

Just as everything else surrounding 9/11, including America coming together to support a president who would never earn our support or respect, in the days, months and years following that day, another terrorist attack will show and further blow apart the deep divisions that president has managed to create in America, with much help from the gas bags in pundit-land and in Congress.

It was all built on the quicksand of deadly lies.

David Ignatius - When the 'Bleed-Out' Begins - washingtonpost.com:

America's political disharmony is scary. But so is the lack of practical preparation for the next attack. With all the emotional discussion of Sept. 11 -- all the commissions and studies and new federal agencies -- you might expect that we had gotten that part right. But we haven't.

Despite spending billions of dollars on supposed bio-defense, the United States is still woefully unprepared for a biological attack. If you doubt it, listen to Dr. Tara O'Toole, director of the Center for Biosecurity in Baltimore and one of the nation's leading experts on the problem. 'More than five years after the anthrax mailings, the U.S. still lacks a coherent plan for conduct of operations to guide the health-care sector's response to mass-casualty care in the event of a bio-terrorist attack or other large-scale catastrophe,' she told a House committee in March.