This is precisely how to fight any sort of crime:The Associated Press: "'To defeat and destroy our enemy, we must understand more than the crimes it already committed,' said commission chairman Thomas H. Kean, a former governor of New Jersey. 'We must understand what drives and motivates it, the source of its power, the resources at its command, its internal strengths and weaknesses.'
Rohan Gunaratna, head of terrorism research at the Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore, told the bipartisan commission that the United States and the international community sat by for a decade as Afghanistan became 'a terrorist Disneyland' where attackers were trained and assaults were planned"

The right wing wants to justify going to war in Iraq any way it can. Too bad it can't.
Laurie Mylroie, an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said major terrorist attacks. beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, can be blamed on Iraq "working with and hiding behind the militants."

But Judith Yaphe, senior research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, said people have used circumstantial evidence "to jump to extraordinary conclusions on Iraqi support for al-Qaida

I have a feeling that some of the stuff that comes out of this commission is going to hurt Bush. At least I hope so. He has misused this event terribly. The first thing he did was run like a rabbitt. The second thing he did was lie about it.