By JEFFERY WHITLOW, LaPlace

DEAR EDITOR: I have had it with the Democrats and their stories of whether President Bush had a warning of a possible attack prior to 9-11, and didn’t share it. To suggest that our President knew about the impending attack and chose to do nothing is mudslinging of the lowest order.

The failure to prevent Sept. 11 was not a failure of intelligence or coordination. It was a failure of imagination. Even if all intelligence signals had been shared among the FBI, CIA and the White House, I’m still not convinced that there was anyone who could have pieced them all together, or have imagined evil on a scale that Osama bin Laden did.

Osama bin Laden was, or should I say, still may be, a very unique man. He’s a combination of Charles Manson and John Wayne Gacy – a truly evil, twisted personality, but with the organizational skills of a top CEO, who translated his evil into a global campaign that rocked a superpower.

Imagining evil on this magnitude does not come naturally to the American character, which is why, even after we are repeatedly confronted with it, we keep reverting backto our natural, optimistic selves. Because our society is based on trust, we can’t get rid of it, even when we so obviously should.

We are at war with terrorism, and the American people must demand bipartisan support for our Commander-in-Chief. We should be outraged at anyone who would use the suffering of Sept. 11 to win votes.