Re: 'Cheney should apologize' [Letter, Village News, 1/21/2010]

Tom Conley must have misunderstood my statement that Cheney, “…is personally responsible for allowing the 9/11 attack to happen…” I didn’t mean that in any conspiracy terms (like he knew the attack would happen that day, or that the Bush administration gave prior notice to any ethnic group working in the World Trade Center Towers, or that it was an “inside job”) – I think all those rumors and theories are false and even destructive, as they take away from the real responsibility that Cheney carries.

Cheney is responsible because he was the person who should have been on the alert to prevent an...