After 2 1/2 Years and Countless Lives Lost

Someone finally said it. That someone was Richard Clarke today before the 9/11 panel. It's something our president has refused to say, Condi Rice couldn't conceive to say, and no one else has said.

Clarke said:

Your government failed you. Your president failed you. And I, ladies and gentlemen, failed you.

Mr. Clarke, you don't know how much this means to me to finally have someone with the guts come forward and speak those words. It's probably one of the greatest truths told since 9/11.

If Mr. Bush had only said them... at any point in the almost 1000 days which have passed since that beautiful, terrible Tuesday morning in September...