More than four years after the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration and Congress have failed to take the urgent steps needed to protect the country, the former September 11 Commission said in a scathing final report on Monday.
"We are safer, but we are not yet safe. Four years after 9/11, we are not as safe as we could be. And that is unacceptable," said Kean, a Republican former (New Jersey) governor. "While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl."
To sum it up the report card: 5 F's (including for failing to provide emergency communications and appropriate security funding), 12 D's, 9 C's and 1 (one) A- in counter-terrorism funding. We also have 2 incompletes. I am not sure which is worse, failing or incomplete. Very Scary. So essentially we attempting to fund a war on terror, by seemingly throw money at a problem, we have not fully defined, nor one that we probably completely understand.
It is time we write to our representatives and demand accountability and understand why our government is failing us, the people, in this war!!!Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York called the report a "top-to-bottom indictment" of the government's approach to fighting terrorism.
"The report shows that while the administration and Congress are focused on fighting an offensive war in Iraq, they are dangerously neglecting the defensive war on terror we should be fighting here at home," he said in a statement.
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