Security lacking after 9/11, Brown says
2006-09-11
Source: The Columbia Dispatch
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rss feedFive years after 9/11, "America is not nearly as safe as we can be and we must be," Rep. Sherrod Brown said yesterday as he delivered the Democrats’ response to President Bush’s weekly national radio address.
Brown began his own national radio remarks by introducing himself as a Senate candidate.
The fact that Brown was chosen by his party to counter Bush on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack highlights the importance Democrats place on Ohio and Brown’s challenge to GOP Sen. Mike DeWine in November’s midterm elections.
Brown, of Avon, began his four-minute address by saying that the pain of Sept. 11 sparked "the best that America had to offer. Neighbor helped neighbor to pick up and recover. City helped city to rebuild. And leaders in Washington worked together, not as Democrats and Republicans, but as Americans willing to do whatever it took to prevent another attack."
But "five years later, we need to see that commitment again," Brown said, going on to attack the Bush administration and GOP congressional majority, which he said failed to take all possible steps to ensure homeland security. Brown said that many of the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 commission have been "haphazardly implemented" or ignored.
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