Dems Criticize Bush Security Policies

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WASHINGTON Apr 8, 2006 (AP)— Democrats said Saturday the nation isn't as safe as it should be because the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress "have failed to back up their rhetoric with robust action."

In his party's weekly radio address, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the second-ranking House Democrat, presented a list of national security shortcomings. He said ports, chemical and nuclear plants and mass transit systems are still vulnerable nearly five years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The nation also has not implemented all of the recommendations of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission, which recently gave the administration and Congress a report card "filled with Fs, Ds and incompletes," said Hoyer, the House minority whip.

"Today, unfortunately, our nation and our people are not as safe as they could and should be," Hoyer said. "Too often, the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress have failed to back up their rhetoric with robust action."

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[salin]

1. iow, Brand W Republicans are twindling thumbs, spending

money like druken sailors and watching as national security is as weak as it was when we were attacked in 2001.

[Cleita]

2. Anybody but a freeper could see that what they were doing

after 9-11 had nothing to do with our security as a nation, but for their enrichment as they saw the golden opportunity to empty the treasury of our surplus, was presented to them by the events of 9-11.

[seabeyond]

3. dems? speaking up again? really? but but but

they never speak up per people on this board