More analysis of ABC's 9/11 mockumentary:

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Roger, let me begin with you. There are points of this docudrama that are more drama than fact. But talk about Bill Clinton and the central premise by ABC that he should have done more to get Bin Laden.

ROGER CRESSY: Joe, it's amazing, based on what I've seen so far is how much they've gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructing Ahmed Rassam to carry out the millenium attacks. Then they got the big stuff wrong, this fantasy about how we had a CIA officer and the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Massoud looking at Bin Laden and they breathlessly call the White House to say we need to take him out and the White House said no. I mean it's sheer fantasy. So, if they want to critique the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, based on fact, I think that's fine. But what ABC has done here is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It's factually wrong. And that's shameful.

SCARBOROUGH: But at the same time, doesn't history show that Bill Clinton had several opportunities to go after bin Laden, but the President and his cabinet were afraid to do so because they may offend some people in the Arab world?

CRESSY: Actually, Joe, that had nothing to do with it. If you read the 9/11 Commission report, it makes it very clear. In most of those cases, George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, said because there was single source intelligence it was his recommendation to the President not to take the shot. There was never a case where we had a clear shot at Bin Laden and the decision to take it wasn't made.

Perhaps ABC should be forced to claim this free airtime as a political donation to the Republican party.

Seems the "War on Terror" label wasn't working anymore, so the Bush Administration has changed its name:

President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.

Fascism is one of those words that left-wingers used to throw around to describe conservatives like, well, Bush. So I'm sure there are pleny of people on the left who find this extremely ironic.

And they have some valid reasons to think so. Other than the religion that they follow, there are many similarities between the religious conservatives like Bush and those endorsing radical Islam. If you were to run down a list of issues from homosexuality to prayer in schools to evolution and science, you would find them almost in lockstep, at least in principle.

And this could also signal another attempt to widen the conflict started by 9/11 to encompass Iran, and maybe even Venezuela. We'll have to wait and see.