Some 9/11 Families Angered by No Apology from Rice

[Snellius]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some relatives of Sept. 11 victims responded in anger on Thursday to what they described as the White House's failure to accept responsibility for the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Family members were among those in the crowded hearing room to listen to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice tell the 9-11 commission that bureaucratic structure was to blame for the administration's inability to counter the attacks.

"No one wants to take any responsibility. Three thousand people died, and all they want to talk about is structural problems," Bob McIlvaine of Oreland, Pennsylvania, whose son died in New York's World Trade Center.

"They should be ashamed of themselves," he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040408_408.html

[Florida_Geek]

1. Clarke did and they liked it, Rice tried to point fingers

and they did not like it. Sounds like Rove did not read the tea leafs right.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

2. She repeated over and over

"I took an oath of office on the day that I took this job to protect and defend."

Regardless whether they could have done anything to prevent it, they still failed to "protect and defend" the people of this country. For that, they owe an apology.

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[joeybee12]

10. One post, huh? Just surfiing and trying to piss people off?

...I'm too tired of people like you to get upset. Isn't Rush on somewhere where you can spend your time better?

[Mithras61]

11. You might want to re-think this a bit...

There's quite a large difference between a police chief apologizing for a simple crime and a Presidential Administration that has allowed the worst security lapse in the history of the world to go without even an apology for allowing it to happen.

Additionally, if the police chief's response to a murder was to impose martial law, you might have a bit of a problem with it, but you don't seem to mind that * has done essentially the same thing.

Presidents going back to John F. Kennedy have dealt with terrorist attacks without imposing something as odious as the USA PATRIOT Act on us, but * says it's the only way to address the issue of terrorism. I guess he forgot that WJC managed to fend off multiple simultaneous terrorist attacks from late 1999 until after New Years Day 2000.

No, the real problem is that the Bushistas DOWNGRADED terrorism as a priority, and now want to claim that they didn't down grade it and that there was no way they could have guessed that airliners would be flown into buildings, which is total Bushit, because the French, English Israelis, the Hart-Rudman Commission and the FBI knew better and told them so. I think that they DO owe us an apology for failing to heed MULTIPLE EXPLICIT warnings. They COULD have done more than they did, and in fact standing protocol at the time called for more to be done (such as scrambling fighter aircraft when the airliners stopped communicating and went off course), but in fact, standing orders appear to have been countermanded. At the very least, someone's head should have rolled, but no one in this administration is even responsible for the massive security failure, so no one has been fired!

[Dulcinea]

3. Yes, they should be ashamed of themselves.

But that would be too much like admitting they screwed up, & they'll never admit to that.

[calimary]

4. Her Imperial Smarter-Than-Thouship wouldn't lower herself to doing that.

Heaven forbid ANY of these people ever accept any blame or responsibility for anything they've done. Ever. I don't know about you, but I'm STILL waiting for those adults who were supposed to be "back in charge" when the bushies took office. They have yet to show up.

[Nay]

5. None of these arrogant assholes think they have anything to

apologize for. Instead, they are amazed that they are being expected to do something with the information and intelligence they receive. They are there for the prestige and the bullying opportunities, not to actually do any work, ferchrissake!!

[TEXASYANKEE]

6. They should be ashamed.

"They should be ashamed!" should be a rallying cry.

[screembloodymurder]

8. They should be hung

out to dry.

[supernova]

7. Franken today: "I thought the grownups were in charge"

I'm paraphrasing him, but he said

"I thought they told us the grownups were going to be in charge now. Turns out the people wearing blue jeans, eating pizza, and obessing over Al-Aqaida were the real grownups."

LOL! How true.

[yellowcanine]

12. What happened to "the buck stops here"

Old Harry Truman must have spun right out of his grave by now. Maybe somebody in Missouri should go check.

[Politicub]

13. She did her job

Her testimony wasn't for the families or to arrive at the truth - she did her job by successfully delivering a series of sound bites for right wing radio and TV.

Her testimony was a sham. Most people didn't bother to watch the hearings, so most of what they will learn about the testimony is from sound bites.

[Moderator]

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