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TEXT 3 (Awareness, Bail, Misusing, Modesty, Faith, Opposite, Behalf, Stick, Malaria, Trials, Involvement, Disappointments, Presidency, Echoing, Successor, Security, Promise, Ground, Insist, Dated, Nominee, Detonate, Displaying, Challenge, Deficits, Trouble, elected, Charge, Bragging, Expanded) We will reopen Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. —the 2000 Republican platform. But they never did. Eight years later, the barricades remain. It was a phony issue, of course — just another ___1___ with which to beat Bill Clinton, who closed the road at the ___2___ of the Secret Service. In an interview with PBS a month after Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney stated the obvious: Pennsylvania Avenue ought to stay closed because, as a fact, if somebody were to ___3___ a truck bomb in front of the White House, it would probably level the White House, and that is unacceptable. Sept. 11 is the excuse for many of the Bush Administrations failures and ___4___. It is also the basis for the one great claim made on George W. Bushs ___5___: At least he has protected us from terrorism. In the seven years since that day, there has not been another foreign-terrorist attack on the American homeland. The ___6___ is that there were no foreign-terrorist attacks on the American homeland in the seven years before 9/11 either. The risk of another terrorist attack didnt increase on 9/11 — only our ___7___ of the risk. The Bush Administration took office mocking the concern that someone might blow up the White House but soon enough was ___8___ that concern.  The platform on which Bush entered the presidency eight years ago comes from a lost world, in which even the party out of power saw an America of unthreatened prosperity and___9___ Yesterdays wildest dreams are todays realities, and there is no limit on the ___10___ of tomorrow, the GOP said. The biggest foreign policy ___11___ America faced in 2000, according to this party document, was to avoid ___12___. our enormou