Democratic U.S. senators from the New York metropolitan area are calling for presidential deputy chief of staff Karl Rove to apologize for saying this:

Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.

Technically, it's accurate.

Howard Dean, who was considered the leading spokesman for the left during the 1994 Democratic primary campaign season, did say, in fact, that Osama bin Laden should be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And Dean's proposed anti-terror policy called largely for understanding the root causes of what drove the terrorists.

In all fairness, Sen. John Kerry, who eventually won the Democratic nomintion from Dean, did repudiate Dean's Osama-is-considered-innocent remarks. However, he did also say the war on terror was "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation."

On the other hand:

The behind-the-scenes response from the Bush Administration to the Sept. 11 attacks: "...(C)apture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice."

While Rove critics say the remarks are out of bounds, they haven't yet pointed to any inaccuracies.