Grayson slams mosque ‘distraction’: Talk about admin that ‘let’ 9/11 happen instead

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Grayson slams mosque ‘distraction’: Talk about admin that ‘let’ 9/11 happen instead

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 -- 4:01 pm

Grayson slams mosque distraction: Talk about admin that let 9/11 happen insteadThe debate over a planned Islamic community center several blocks from New York City's World Trade Center site is a "distraction," according to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL).

Instead, the debate should shift in focus to an examination of the administration which "let it happen."

'It,' of course, being the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The remark was made during a Friday appearance on MSNBC's The Ed Show with former liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz.

“If we are going to talk about 9/11, why don’t we talk about how not so much the people who died on 9/11 were disgraced by the possibility of an Islamic athletic center several blocks away; how about the fact that they were disgraced by a president who let it happen?" he asked. "Who went on vacation for the entire month of August after he was warned in writing that Osama bin Laden was actually finding targets in NYC and learning how to take these planes and do terrible things with them? The thing itself said ‘hijacking’ and they did nothing about it."

Read more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0821/grayson-slams-mosque-debate-talk-bush-letting-911-happen/

[KansDem]

1. I agree with Rep. Grayson. With 16 American intelligence agencies operating before 9/11...

Air Force Intelligence
Army Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast Guard Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security (after 9/11)
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marine Corps Intelligence
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Navy Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

http://www.intelligence.gov/about-the-intelligence-community/

...you can't tell me Bush was caught completely by surprise when told we were under attack:


he knew...

[nc4bo]

2. Oh-oh. Hope Mr. Grayson doesn't get sent to the 9/11 Forum on DU. nt

But I do believe he asked the right questions there.

[greyl]

4. Why would he? His statements are supported by plenty of evidence. nt

[nc4bo]

6. No worries, I think so too. nt

[DWinNJ]

3. Criticism of Bush has to stop

The man deserved to take a month vacation.
He had just put in over 6 months of being Commander in Chief, he had read over the voluminous Energy Task Force report and brush grows like crazy during the summer.

[nilram]

5. And the country is so much better because there's less brush in Texas!

[SpiralHawk]

7. "It, um, was all, um, Bill Clinton's fault. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[SoapBox]

8. Exactly! Thank you Alan...

and I have no doubt what so ever, that we will be hearing SQUIRREL out of the GOBPers, RushTurds
and the TeaTraitorBaggers, many many times.

[Politicalboi]

9. I hope this guy runs in 2016

Too bad he didn't run before Obama in 08. We need him NOW. He is willing to go back and investigate how and why. And I bet he would let Bush/Cheney be tried in a court. I long for the day Bush/Cheney are sent to Iraq for their trial. I know that probably would never happen, but wouldn't it be nice to see them sit in the very same court room Saddam sat in. Watching those two chicken hawks cry like babies.

[alp227]

10. Grayson's damn right. GOP got a lot of distractions from the Bush crimes

as part of a "look at me!" strategy to keep up that PR.

[Poboy]

11. k&r