Senator Leahy: "Why DID 9/11 Happen on Bush's Watch?"

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Senator Leahy: "Why Did 9/11 Happen on Bush's Watch?"
by Diary
Tue Oct 03, 2006 at 05:03:50 PM PDT

On September 29th, Senator Patrick Leahy was interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.

Goodman asked: "what would be any different if Democrats were in power?"

Senator Leahy responded:

"For one thing, we would have been asking the questions about what's been going on for six years. We've had a rubberstamp congress that automatically has given the President anything he wants, because nobody's asked questions. Nobody's asked the questions that are in the Woodward book that's coming out this weekend, where you find all the mistakes were made because they will acknowledge no mistakes. The Republicans control both the House and the Senate. They will not call hearings. They won't try to find out how did Halliburton walk off with billions of dollars in cost overruns in Iraq. Why did the Bush administration refuse to send the body armor our troops needed in Iraq? Why did they send inferior material?"

Senator Leahy continued:

"And, of course, the two questions that the Congress would not ask, because the Republicans won't allow it, is, why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen? And secondly, when they had Osama bin Laden cornered, why didn't they get him? Had there been an independent congress, one that could ask questions, these questions would have been asked years ago. We'd be much better off. We would have had the answers to that. I think with those answers, we would not have the fiasco we have in Iraq today, we would have caught Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan would be a more stable place, and the world would be safer."

more at:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/29/150254
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/3/20350/7637