Arlington VA, home to the Nation’s most well known National Cemetery is home to many a fallen hero, and is a natural place for the Nation to pay tribute to the lives lost on 911.

But when one Democrat speaker decided to politicize the issue, the crowd was not very accommodating.

Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways

The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was commemorated Monday in a ceremony that not only honored those who died, but saluted those whose actions on 9/11 made a difference.

“Arlington remembers all responders,” County Board Chairman Chris Zimmerman said at the event, held in the courtyard of the Arlington County Justice Center. “The families, the non-profits, members of the public, victims who lost their lives, families and loved ones who lost their lives, and the spirit that brought us together.”

At 9:37 a.m., the exact time the plane hit the Pentagon five years ago, Zimmerman called for a minute of silence. A bell was then tolled 184 times, to remember the victims who died when American Airlines Flight 77 was deliberately crashed by terrorists into the Pentagon.

U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th, lauded the “perfect professionalism” of Arlington’s public-safety personnel, who responded to the Pentagon after the crash and won worldwide accolades for containing the damage with no additional loss of life.

He also praised the community-wide outreach effort that occurred after the attacks.

“Arlington has woven together the fabric of a community that can’t be torn apart,” he said.

But Moran then maneuvered into more sensitive ground, suggesting that the country was not safer and intimating that the Bush administration’s foreign policy was headed in the wrong directions.

“More people hate us,” Moran said, a comment that drew an outburst from the crowd.

“My brother died on 9/11 - don’t make this political,” a woman in audience cried out.

Moran continued, calling on the nation to address the root causes of terrorism by the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

Suzie at Assorted Babble made this observation today:

Is she right?  At the risk of making an over generalization, she is on to something.

At Horsesass.org, the blog owner made an open post that simple said:

Wow. Striking in it’s passion.  How profound.

But the comments…that’s where the passion really is.  It is literally a hate spewed anti conservative Bush hating litany of complaints.  Some samples:

My friend Thom posted this to his blog, and I felt it worthy of passing on.

I watched part one, and I have to say I have no clue why democrats and Clinton were worried.

Clinton was not the target of this.  If there was an intention, it was not to make anyone look bad.

It was to make John O’Niel and Richard Clarke look good.

Clarke, in the post movie Nightline special, made sure he assigned he blame firmly on then CIA Director George Tenet.  Sincxe he is now a paid ABC consultant, the fact that he is the hero is unsurprising.

Much ado about nothing.

Here is the WaPo’s assessment.  I find little here to disagree with (emphasis added).

September 11 and the Clintonistas

   Executives at ABC began wimping out as soon as Bill Clinton and some other Democrats said, "dare you."

    The partisan-driven effort to kill ABC’s "The Path to 9/11," a two-part miniseries that was scheduled to air tonight, elicited this reaction from the Senate Democratic leader: "It smells of intimidation. I think anytime accusations arise when the essence of the judgment made by television producers is influenced by outside forces we have to call into question whether that level of intimidation is appropriate." The New York Times, meanwhile, lamented in an editorial about the "Soviet-style chill embedded in the idea that we, as a nation, will not allow critical portrayals of one of our own recent leaders."

    OK, here’s the truth: It was actually former Sen. Tom Daschle, minority leader in 2003, who said that in response to conservative criticism of CBS’s "The Reagans." Ditto for the NYT editorial, which appeared on Nov. 5, 2003. How things change. This time around the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, is leading the "Soviet-style" intimidation of television producers to squelch a miniseries unflattering to the Clinton administration.

    In a letter to Disney President and CEO Robert Iger, Mr. Reid and four other Democratic senators "urge [him] to cancel this broadcast," suggesting it constitutes "right-wing political propaganda." The chief culprit, the letter points out, is writer/producer Cyrus Nowrasteh, whose "political leaning" and "public statements," as well as his "promoting this miniseries across conservative blogs and talk shows," raise "serious questions about the motivations of [the movie's] creators and those who approved the deeply flawed program." Talk about Big Brother.