repuke senate will flip-flop

[cynatnite]

WASHINGTON - Three weeks before London's bus and subway bombings, a Senate committee voted to slash spending on mass transit security in the United States, a decision sure to be reversed when Congress returns next week.

At a minimum, the Senate will restore the $50 million cut, G. William Hoagland, top budget aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Friday.

There is pressure for a lot more, though adding to rail and transit security programs means cutting elsewhere in the Homeland Security Department's $32 billion budget for next year. That places severe limits on what Congress can do — at least if it plays by its budget rules.

Despite the March 2004 bombing of Madrid's subway system, U.S. officials have been consumed with preventing a repeat of the airliner hijackings that produced the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050708/ap_on_go_co/congress_transit_security

[annabanana]

1. just think what if....

we had prosecuted 9/11 with excellent international police work with the good will of true allies (since wasted) and had used the experts on the ground at the time to break up nascent cells rather than fund a massive jihadi training ground in Iraq.

and what if..some of those tax cuts had been spent on securing our container ports and cargo lines...

stupid stupid monkeyboy

[cynatnite]

2. The lives that could have been saved

It's staggering. There would have been no Iraq war and it would have been a real war on terror. Not this faux.

[wallwriter]

3. Mass transit is for wimpy socialists!!

Notice how the terrists didn't blow up any SUVs!!:sarcasm: