[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2486]
[From the U.S. 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 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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