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    Repiglican Roast

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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Tuesday, March 28, 2006

    Uncle DICK and Little George are Minding the security of this County, and don't you forget it

    Undercover investigators slipped radioactive material -- enough to make two small "dirty bombs" -- across U.S. borders in Texas and Washington state in a test last year of security at American points of entry.

    Radiation alarms at the unidentified sites detected the small amounts of cesium-137, a nuclear material used in industrial gauges. But U.S. customs agents permitted the investigators to enter the United States because they were tricked with counterfeit documents.

    The Bush administration said Monday that within 45 days it will give U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents the tools they need to verify such documents in the future.


    Why wait 45 days? Why is this just being addressed 5 years after 9/11? Why, as usual, do the republicans who have been running things, do this kind of job then accuse the democrats of a "pre 9/11 mindset"?

    I think it is safe to assume all security concerns have been dealt with in the same way - by issuing rich contrite of tax payer money to repiglikkkan cooperate insiders ostensibly in the "security" business, with no thought to actual security at all.

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