Bush Weighs 9/11 Panel's Ideas as Pressure Builds

[BaysideLiberal]

By Caren Bohan
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - As pressure built for swift U.S. government action on the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations to avert another terror attack, President Bush said on Saturday he wanted to "carefully examine" the ideas before deciding how to proceed.

Lawmakers rushed to respond to the panel's findings, announcing rare August recess hearings, as Sept. 11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean warned that security experts expect an al Qaeda attack on American soil and that "time is not on our side."

Kean said on Friday security experts believe militants will try to use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, and added that if Congress and the president delayed making changes they would be held responsible by the American people.

The commission recommended sweeping changes to U.S. intelligence operations and how the government fights terrorism when it issued its final report on Thursday on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5763125

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[Cha]

1. Yeah, I believe that shit when I see it...if bush's lips are moving

then he's in lying mode.

[Tempest]

2. History repeats itself

"President Bush said on Saturday he wanted to "carefully examine" the ideas before deciding how to proceed."


This is exactly what he did with the Gore Commission and Hart-Rudmann studies on airport security, whose recommendations would have prevented 9/11 from happening in the first place.

He has got to go. Our entire existence depends upon it.