Juxtaposition of Two News Stories
Kucinich gave the following speech in Congress on March 2, 2006:
"Mr. Speaker, I want to call the attention of the House to the juxtaposition of two news stories: one that says, relating to 9/ 11, Federal officials were repeatedly warned in the months before the September 11, 2001, terror attacks that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were planning aircraft hijacking and suicide attacks according to a new report that the Bush administration has been suppressing.
"And this, from the front page of today's Washington Post: a newly leaked video recording the high-level government deliberation the day before Hurricane Katrina hit shows disaster officials emphatically warning President Bush that the storm posed a catastrophic threat to New Orleans and the gulf coast, and a grim-faced Bush personally assuring State leaders that his administration was fully prepared, quote-unquote, to help.
"Do we see a pattern here? 9/11, Katrina? They knew something was going to happen and they did not act. They knew that if they went into Iraq that we were looking at a disaster, that there was no way we were going to be able to run that country.
"They know that global climate change poses a threat to the entire planet. Nothing is being done. There is a pattern of recklessness, indifference, callousness. The implications are deadly for the people of the United States."
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