One tragic day in September five years ago is distracting our country from domestic issues by focusing on a war in the wrong country.

American media and partisan political powers have consistently used the tragedy for their own gain.

In President Bush’s statement Monday night, his reference to the war on terrorism as “the calling of our generation” is vile and upsetting.

Just because it takes the length of a generation for an inept administration to handle this diplomatic crisis does not mean it can not be handled with less time and money.

If we undertake this calling long-term, we will hand off a behemoth national debt to the next generation and also determine their calling: climbing out of a financial abyss.

The U.S. economy is in distress during this distraction as “emergency” spending bills drive war costs through the roof. It is not surprising that the International Monetary Fund just stated the housing market declines will cause the U.S. economy to dip in 2007.

Our economy is suffering while we are led on a witch hunt.

Now that the hangover from a weekend of 9/11 coverage is over, how are we affected other than how we are told we are affected.

As a nation, we are allowing an administration to take excessive credit for keeping Americans safe. We are not currently any more or less safe than we were five years ago.

Excessive coverage of the 9/11 tragedy over the last week has contributed to the problem.

Many politicians in power profess their religious conviction without understanding the optimal message of peace.

Let the healing begin.