Political parties need votes from people, and voters do not like being murdered or seeing their countrymen killed. So you would expect all politicians to take their side on least on this.

But when it comes to Democrats, you’d be wrong about that.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the country was fairly united, mostly due to the shock and horror at what had just happened. But within a couple of weeks, that unity was gone.

What manifested itself on that horrible day as Democrats and Republicans spontaneously singing “God Bless America” on the steps of the Capitol, quickly became for the left a public discussion of what we did to make them hate us so much and how we were all “little Eichmanns.” It took less than a week after 9/11 for Barack Obama's friend and pastor to deliver his famous "God damn America" sermon on how “America’s chickens are coming home to........

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