Yahoo! News - Kerry Urges Rice to Testify Publicly to 9/11 Panel
Kerry accused President Bush's White House of stonewalling the commission by keeping Rice off its public witness list, and of attempting "character assassination" against its own former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke.

"If Condoleezza Rice can find time to do '60 Minutes' on television before the American people, she ought to find 60 minutes to speak to the commission under oath," Kerry said.

No sooner had I said he should keep quiet- he starts talking.

He said Franklin Roosevelt had had no problem cooperating with an investigation of America's unpreparedness for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, and added:

"This administration has done the opposite -- stonewalled this commission."

Nice touch.

Still, the Bush camp is well aware the issue is politically explosive for a president running heavily on a claim to strong wartime leadership, and it responded quickly to Kerry's jibe.

"John Kerry's attack on Dr. Rice today is part of the Democrats' strategy to politicize the work of the 9/11 commission," Bush campaign spokeswoman Nicolle Devenish said. "John Kerry seeks to distract Americans from his own failed ideas for protecting America from future attacks."

If these attacks are in the future, how do we know that Kerry's ideas "failed"? Does anyone else see a problem with that claim?