Homeland, anyone? Posted by Moira Whelan

Fran Townsend has worked herself into a lather over the last few days to exploit the connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Townsend’s circular logic on the issue isn’t sitting well with the national security community, most notably, Richard Clarke. He argues in an op-ed today that we learned a great deal from the NIE by what WAS’T in the report.

I’d like to take it a step further. We learned a lot about how our homeland is prepared by what Townsend has never said. In all of her comments, our White House Homeland Security Director failed to call on Republicans in Congress to dislodge the 9-11 legislation and homeland security appropriations bills that have been languishing in Congress because Republicans are standing in the way.

She claims that the Bush Administration has done a lot to keep us safe from al Qaeda, including setting up the new department, and strengthening intelligence (not buying that, but that’s for another post) but made no mention of the fact that Bush’s buddies in Congress are holding up funding for it, and Bush has threatened to veto because Democrats have proposed spending more to protect the country than the president requested.

Isn’t securing the country supposed to be Townsend’s priority? She even went so far as to say that the information in the reports “is not new” to those charged with protecting the homeland. Then why isn’t she pushing this legislation through Congress? She’s spending a significant amount of time telling us what Al Qaeda may do, but I have yet to see anything about what the Bush Administration intends to do.

Harry Reid and the Democrats on the other hand are forcing this issue forward by threatening to keep Congress in session until it’s done. Good move.

After all, the less attention we give to this issue, the more credence we give to the “fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here” line. It really doesn’t get any simpler. Terrorists want to attack this country, but the country is unprotected.

The president and the Republicans need to finally get the message that Americans want their country secured, not fear-mongering on terrorism.

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[Greg]

The awful truth is that 9/11 was staged. Where is the Boeing 757-sized hole at the Pentagon? In fact, where is the Boeing 757? - http://i12.tinypic.com/6c7rm6t.jpg

Major Douglas Rokke, PhD, U.S. Army (ret) – Former Director U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project.

"When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile's impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile. And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile."

G.W. (Jerry) Longspaugh, MS Aerospace Engineering (1942 - 2006) – Retired Aerospace Engineer.

"The debris found outside the Pentagon is inconsistent with the impact of a Boeing 757 or any aircraft of comparable dimensions. In particular, in the absence of some agency (possibly unknown to physical science) that removed the wings, there is no way to avoid the conclusion that the wings (and therefore the aircraft) were never present in the first place. In this case, no Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon building on the morning of September 11, 2001."

Capt. Russ Wittenberg, U.S. Air Force – Former Air Force fighter pilot with over 100 combat missions. Retired commercial airline pilot for Pan Am and United Airlines for 35 years.

"It’s roughly a 100 ton airplane. And an airplane that weighs 100 tons all assembled is still going to have 100 tons of disassembled trash and parts after it hits a building. There was no wreckage from a 757 at the Pentagon. … The vehicle that hit the Pentagon was not Flight 77. We think, as you may have heard before, it was a cruise missile."

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