Monday, December 5, 2005
9/11 Commission: We're Still Not Close To Being Ready...
Try to act surprised as you deal with the fact that a whopping 4+ years after 9/11, the Bush administration and the Republican Congress are dragging their feet in safeguarding the country from terrorist attacks.
It seems the administration is still resisting the suggestions of the 9/11 Commission, which it didn't want created in the first place...
Tom Kean, the Republican chairman of the committee, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that enacting the changes is "not a priority for the government right now.Gotta love it. What was the Bush campaign's underlying theme last year?
"A lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.
"What we're concerned about now is that these recommendations -- four years, more than four years after 9/11, are still not being done. People are not paying attention to them."
Lee Hamilton, the committee's Democratic vice-chairman, predicted another attack will occur -- "It's not a question of if" -- and said the nation is not "as well-prepared as we should be."
Added Kean, "God help us if we have another attack and we haven't done some of these things."
"Vote for us or you're all gonna die!"
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