[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 25 (Thursday, March 2, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H511-H512]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   JUXTAPOSITION OF TWO NEWS STORIES

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. 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

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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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