On this third anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I'm considering the comparisons then, and since made between those terrible events and Pearl Harbor. Three years after December 7,1941, Allied forces were experiencing bloody setbacks, but the war in Europe would be over in the Spring. V-J Day was seven months away. TYLER...THAT WAS WORLD WAR II!

Where is Osama? Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction? What has this administration accomplished, aside from redistributing more wealth to the wealthy?

The clock is ticking. A (pardon the expression) Democratic administration had almost entirely destroyed the Axis three years after Pearl Harbor. Three years and one absurd war in Iraq (whose former government was anathema, not just to us, but to Al Qaeda) later, what have your clowns done to find retribution for 9/11?

As for Francophobia, what do you think of the notion that members of the House of Representatives leadership with French surnames are security risks? I'd call for M. DeLay's immediate resignation. How 'bout you, podna?

Michael Williams (electronic mail, September 11, 2004)